Get the Family Dog Cloned 240
Anonymous writes "Some of you may have seen 'The 6th Day,' the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger a few years back. If you recall there was a 're-pet' cloning service to get your dog back if you ever lost them. Enter 'Best Friends Again': 'A US biotech company on Wednesday announced it will auction off the right for five dog owners to have their furry best friend cloned, with bidding starting at 100,000 dollars. "BioArts International ... will sell five dog cloning service slots to the general public via a worldwide online auction," the California-based biotech start-up said in a statement.'"
Or you could just breed your dog (Score:5, Insightful)
Here is the thing... (Score:5, Insightful)
I have seen this stuff before and remember the pet may not even come back looking the same. Even if they got it looking EXACTLY THE SAME, the memories, the personality, the... soul will not be the same.
All it will do is leave you missing your loved one more. Just let it go, and keep them in your heart. Mittens / Fido will always live on inside you *Yes yes sappy but it's true and you KNOW IT*
Re:Or you could just breed your dog (Score:4, Insightful)
dead puppies (Score:4, Insightful)
(Can you tell I am totally against this.)
Not lossless (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Here is the thing... (Score:2, Insightful)
Doesn't make much sense for me (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Here is the thing... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not lossless (Score:3, Insightful)
It may even be the case that we will be able to submit genetic samples from two partners, regardless of gender, and have a technological process create the new genome and begin its gestation. We may even be able to select parameters in the process, such as selecting gender and which traits to inherit.
I prefer to see this as the next step up for medicine, not as "playing God". We've come a long way from caves and flint axes, and it's only the fundamentalists and conservatives who insist what we have is where it should end.
Get a Lab (Score:3, Insightful)
Or just brave the wilds of adopting a new random dog. There's already way too many of them for anyone's good, without cloning up more in the world.
These cloning fees should include a $1000 donation to a programme that neuters 20 other dogs. If we're going to clone biodiversity out of the gene pool, we might as well get aggressive. After all, it's a dog eat dog world.
Re:Or you could just breed your dog (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Or you could just breed your dog (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Or you could just breed your dog (Score:3, Insightful)
A pig looks you in the eyes and recognizes you as an equal,