Company in South Korea has been doing this far longer...the owner of said company is looking to bring back the woolly mammoth...
They have a mental illness they are trying to disguise as compassion......
However it’s a free country and a fool and their money can part.....
A clone of your pet won’t be that pet. It will be a unique personality that will be different from the original.
Death of those we love is part of life. Bear the grief and find a new pet.
My wife and I are dog people and even after 17 years, we still miss her Yorkie. That said, I think the Vangemerts have more money than sense...
I think these people believe the clones will be identical in personality and knowledge......they won’t
Exactly! $50K donated to an animal shelter would be put to much better use.
The dog may look the same, but it is not the same dog.
Dogs, like people, have certain tendencies, but are also molded by their life experiences. If I cloned my Corgi, the clone might still have the herding instinct, but he will wind up living a very different life.
People are shallow about how they look at humans, placing too much emphasis on physical appearance, and not enough on the actual person. It is no surprise that many people think about animals the same way.
And I could just go out and get another Corgi for 5% of the cost.
When my cat(s) go....no more pets for me. The wife may have something to say about it, but I am done with pets for a while.
A clone is not a duplicate. Each organism is an individual, even if the genetic material is the same. Creatures are shaped by environment and experiences. Not just by genes.
Lady, go get a rescue dog from the shelter.
It’s a solid bet Amy has no children...
Why would I want to clone a cat?
The only cure for the sadness you feel when a pet dies is to go get another one. Providing you can care for it properly, of course.
Sorry, but the next cat I get is going to be ceramic.
It was identical twin studies of homosexual humans that put the nail in the coffin of the “born homosexual” claim - when they found so many homosexuals who's identical twin was heterosexual. (Even though our leftwing corrupted media & institutions do their best to ignore that proven truth.)
Alan Beck, director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine . . . . .
Those two statements from the article tell you everything that is wrong with the way that the modern, rich Westerners relate to their pets.
Yup. You can file this under “Tax on the stupid”..
If I had the money? In a heartbeat!
This cloning business does not fit with my moral standards. Regardless, cloning a living being does not guarantee it will have the same personality. It’s just not quite like Ford producing identical F150’s, one right after another.
Cloning cannot insure that the clone will have the same personality or character as the original - just the same DNA.
What would the cloning accomplish, an animal that looked like your beloved pet but that’s all. Cloning can’t replicate all the emotional, environmental and physical experiences that made your pet who he was and never will, we aren’t in a Schwarzenegger movie after all.