Pet cloning: woman pays $50,000 to clone dog

That's a scary picture - the puppy looks horrified. The problem I have with all this is that the pups won't be loved for themselves so much as for what they were created from.. It's just turning them into products for mess consumption.

This is so wrong on so many levels.

Would you ever consider cloning a dog or any other pet or do you think this is just insane? for 50 grand sure let me go to my money tree and make a withdrawl... on a side note did she get a free copy of pet cemetary with that?

Even though many humans speculate on on the ethics of cloning, the rate of innovation and advancement of the science during the past 15 years has been amazing to witness.

Lol, next thing you know they'll be cloning McCain just to be sure there would be one left to finish his second term!

this is so wrong.

i think you should get a new pet and make new memories with that one...leave the past behind you, as good as it was...

That woman looks unappealing

I don't think it occured to her that clones don't live that long, that they can easily be deformed to therfore make your freind suffer, or that they don't have memory of anything the real freind did.

To her, I'd have wanted to say I'm sorry you miss Bogger, we all miss our own different individuals when they're gone, but please don't do it. It's time o acceptthem when they're gone, like every thing living always has since the dawn of time, let him go, you can't keep him forever.

She looks like she's about to have lunch.

The world as we know it is slowly but surely coming to an end. In addition to cloning pets a company know as Clonaid claims they can make replicas of you or whoever you know for price.

Now children,can you say "6th Day"?

For more info check out this companies website @ www.clonaid.com

Genes don't dictate personalities. She has just wasted so much money it's unreal.

so now she can look forward to 5 more of her dogs dying of cancer

I would clone my dog for any price.

wtf? I just dont understand. Why would you want five copies of the same dog?...you wouldn't even be able to tell them apart.. Plus there are millions of dogs in shelter's waiting to be adopted in time before the shelter feels like their taking up space and need to be put down. I just wanna smack this women.

ummmmm. what do i even have to say about this woman. that is one crazy b*tch. haha i hope those scientists took her money and just gave her some other random dogs and went out to buy some nice loafers. dont think she would be able to tell. plus the dog she was actually attached to is still the dog she lost. she didnt bring booger back from the dead(although i must commend her one some fine name choices)

Why would you do this? Get another dog. It's the same thing.

Wait no it's not. It's way fucking cheaper.

We human beings have the most astonishing capacity for narcissism and waste... to think that someone actually spent that much money to clone a pet makes me sad inside... I guess there are no starving children where this lady is from... but, you know, cute dog...

People with 50,000 grand to blow on reincarnating wish bone are usually so far from reality, trying to speak reason and logic to them is utterly futile.

Am I the only one that thinks this lady and booger look awefuly alike?

I am very active in dog rescue. There are sooo many dogs that are put to sleep because there just arent enough homes for them. The shelters have more Pitbulls in them than any other breed. She should have adopted one of them for the $50 adoption fee and donated the rest of the money to the shelter! I hope that she at least spays and neuters all of them!

Although I do think that this lady has way to much time on her hands. she obviously loved this dog and weather or not she actually got her dog back she seems to be extreamly happy. Also I find it interesting that the article doesn't say anything about the other cloned pups. All I have to say is at least this women didn't spend her money on some sort of hand bag. she gave it to science which i think may very well better our way of life.

Cloning creates a identical physical clone, NOT a personality clone. She does not have 5 times her dog at all. She has 5 times the genetic material.

Silly.

Someone should remind this narcisistic woman that there are probably about 10,000 children starving and being mistreated in Orange County alone (currently also being ignored by attendees to the lovely ode to narcisism called the Crystal Cathedral), that could have benefited so much from half the $$ she spent on her idiocy.

cool. some people take the term, "cloning" too literally though. They aren't exact copies. They are just organisms produced from the same hereditary material of another specimen.

When can we start cloning children? We could keep the spares in a closet in case we lose one at an airport ... oh that's another story.

this honestly shows humanity's obsession with the past, with what 'once was'. We are so afraid of moving on, so afraid that we will forget that thing/person, so afraid we can NOT live without that thing/person, that it has come to this-cloning puppies so that she never has to be without her beloved memory.
it's a bit sad, and it feeds that addiction with the past.
i wonder whats next...