Recently a man had his blue tic hound who passed away cloned for $100,000. Would you ever spend that much money to have one of your beloved pets cloned. Or would you just realize it was only going to die again, making it that much harder?
Clone your dead pet for a $100,000
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I don't think that is something I could do.
11/16/2012
I wouldn't. It wouldn't be the same animal. It'd have a different personality and different color patterns. Even worse, it'd die early and have health problems due to its epigenetics being all wonky.
11/16/2012
I wouldn't do it simply because it's ridiculous. I'm not sad that, "Oh, if I clone it, I will lose it all over again." Everything dies. You're born, then you spend the rest of your time slowly dying. That's just ridiculous to even consider spending that much on some animal. If I really wanted another pet, I'd just go get another pet.
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I'd Have To Go Through The Pain Of Losing That Pet Twice In My Life, No Thanks
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If I was rich... I'd be eccentric and rich and I'd totally do it! I'm really into science and I think it would be really cool. I find it beautiful in a way to have your pet live again. It's neat! Hopefully I would have named him Frankenweenie.
11/16/2012
I really don't see myself doing that even if I had the money.
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Probably not
11/16/2012
Although I love my pet dearly, I don't want to clone him when he passes.
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no!
11/17/2012
Oh heck no. I had a cat for over 17 years and he passed away. I have a hard enough time seeing video and photos of him because it is just too hard.
11/17/2012
thats dumb
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Nope
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No, I loved my pet, but it's not worth it.
11/17/2012
As much as I loved my pets, I wouldn't do it even if it costed one dollar...watching them die once was enough thanks, and I feel that it would be really mean to make a "copy" of them.
I can only imagine how hurt the "original" would be once the clone wound up in heaven too. =<
I know if I died I wouldn't be all that happy if my mother made a clone of me...it'd feel like she was replacing me, and I'm convinced pets have feelings just like we do.
I can only imagine how hurt the "original" would be once the clone wound up in heaven too. =<
I know if I died I wouldn't be all that happy if my mother made a clone of me...it'd feel like she was replacing me, and I'm convinced pets have feelings just like we do.
11/17/2012
The thing is you don't end up with another Ralph or Woofy or Fluffy, you end up with an entirely new dog that just has the same genetic makeup. Little of an animal is entirely to do with the genes, because the second they put the cloned embryo into the mother dog it's going to have an entirely different environment.
Pretty much the only thing that's 100% going to be the same between your new dog and your old dog are the health issues that probably killed it in the first place.
Not that I'm against cloning! Cloning's super cool! It's just not good for that use.
Pretty much the only thing that's 100% going to be the same between your new dog and your old dog are the health issues that probably killed it in the first place.
Not that I'm against cloning! Cloning's super cool! It's just not good for that use.
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Anyone with enough cash to do it is going to be sadly dissapointed. A clone may well not even have the same coloration or stature as the original pet. Many factors during the pregnancy effect those outcomes. More critically, however, a pet, like a human, is developed into who they are by every factor from the moment of their birth (and perhaps even sounds, chemicals and exposures in utero) and then every interaction with their siblings, parents and humans. Every exposure to sound, touch, the rain outside when they are four days old, to the fact that a child in the birth home held them on day ten. Everything shaped who their beloved pet was, and nothing, nothing, nothing about cloning creates a xerox copy of that. Thus their $100,000 "new" pet may be further from it's original "cell source" then some dog they adopt at the Humane Society or from any breeder!!
Originally posted by
Rod Ronald
Recently a man had his blue tic hound who passed away cloned for $100,000. Would you ever spend that much money to have one of your beloved pets cloned. Or would you just realize it was only going to die again, making it that much harder?
Worse yet, clones are not perfect "reproductions&qu ot;. In fact, cell lives have only so many divisional and repair cycles to their DNA structure and we have found clones have a huge number of genetic issues and defects that reflect the true "cell age" of the host provider. Thus "Dolly the Sheep", the famous first cloned mammal, had severe arthritis and a drastically less healthy and shorter life span then her "host cell" mother. In short, she started life as an "old sheep".
Cloning may have some useful real world applications, but there can be abuses and indeed, there is no question that even if the most pristine stem cells are used, clones are not carbon copies of the original animal, or human.
11/17/2012
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You are 100% correct.
Originally posted by
potstickers
I wouldn't. It wouldn't be the same animal. It'd have a different personality and different color patterns. Even worse, it'd die early and have health problems due to its epigenetics being all wonky.
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That's a good point too. The cloned pet...even if a perfect clone, would not be the one who sat on your chest for 24 hours, that time you had the flu, or made you laugh by running through the sprinklers till he was soaked to the bone....etc.
Originally posted by
MissCandyland
Oh heck no. I had a cat for over 17 years and he passed away. I have a hard enough time seeing video and photos of him because it is just too hard.
What psychological confusion.
11/17/2012
I feel that animals have distinct personalities, and I'm not a scientist but I think that even if you clone an animal, it doesn't mean it will end up having the same personality. I feel like it would be really frustrating to have new pet that looked the same as one I really loved, but doesn't act the same. Also, that's a lot of money, and even if it were the same it would die again, which would be even more painful.
11/17/2012
No way
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Nope
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If I had the money to blow, I probably would.
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That is just way to much money to through away in my opinion
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I'd rather just have them live as long as me......no, I wouldn't clone them.
11/17/2012
Even if you clone a pet it's not going to have the same personality. Just get another pet and enjoy them.
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No absolutely not
Originally posted by
Rod Ronald
Recently a man had his blue tic hound who passed away cloned for $100,000. Would you ever spend that much money to have one of your beloved pets cloned. Or would you just realize it was only going to die again, making it that much harder?
11/17/2012
No, never.
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I wouldn't do it because it is a waste of money.
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I would do it for my mom. She has been mourning the passing of her beagle/german mix for a couple of years now.
Originally posted by
Rod Ronald
Recently a man had his blue tic hound who passed away cloned for $100,000. Would you ever spend that much money to have one of your beloved pets cloned. Or would you just realize it was only going to die again, making it that much harder?
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