TV Show - I Cloned My Pet -- UPDATE

[pomtzu]

Not really an issue of health or anything for me - I just feel each of my dogs were unique in their own way and I prefer remembering them that way.

Agreed!! Cloning a pet is morbid - IMO.

[IRescue452]

You just get the body, not the personality. At some point it would eventually dawn on you that your pet is dead. Maybe the clone doesn't turn out to have the same personality no matter what you try and then it finally hits you. You can't run away from loss and grieving forever.

[Karen]

I have it set to record, I didn't realize it is a series. It should be interesting, in any case. I would never have it done myself, as I know there are pets out there needing homes, and each one has its own personality that I could learn to love.

[TamanduaGirl]

I'd do it for Pua or Stewie if I was rich enough and it were feasible. Would be cool to see if Stewie's genes would have turned out blond like Pua as I suspect. And Pua has been reluctant to breed when we have had males and would love to have a baby Pua, plus her color is rare, but we'll try again once our breeder friend has a male for us.

I wouldn't clone any of my domestics though. There are more scientific reasons for my willingness to clone the anteaters and not trying to replace them. For the price of cloning I could just get several new anteaters instead.

[happylabs]

Anybody see this on GMA this morning? They just did a story on this. Now I am disgusted. They showed pics from Korea where the cloning is done. They do all sorts of testing on dogs there and it doesn't look like the dogs are treated all that well.

I also was not all that impressed with the woman on GMA they showed who cloned her little dog Trouble. She said the cloned dog, named Double Trouble, does some of the same things Trouble did, all of which most puppies do.

Not watching the show tonight.

[pomtzu]

Anybody see this on GMA this morning? They just did a story on this. Now I am disgusted. They showed pics from Korea where the cloning is done. They do all sorts of testing on dogs there and it doesn't look like the dogs are treated all that well.

I also was not all that impressed with the woman on GMA they showed who cloned her little dog Trouble. She said the cloned dog, named Double Trouble, does some of the same things Trouble did, all of which most puppies do.

Not watching the show tonight.

I saw that on GMA this a.m. too.

Not only are the animals in Korea not treated well in the lab, but when they have outlived their usefulness, they are sold to farms to be killed for human consumption, since dog is eaten in Korea.

So not only does this woman have "Double Trouble", but shortly, she is getting another clone who will probably be called "Triple Trouble", so she says. What a sorry piece of work.......

Just think of how far that $50,000 a pop per clone, could go the feed and care for all the homeless pets living in shelters.

[Karen]

I have the show set to record tonight, I know animals can be cloned other places than that one Korean facility ...