Would you clone your pet for $50,000?
If you had the money, would you clone your pet? Me, I think they are as unique as people, and wouldn't want a clone. I have had some pretty great pets over the years...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/29/us-clones-dog-idUSTRE50S4EH20090129
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claudicina
asked 5 months ago
No. Too many good ones need a home, no need to repeat.
If I had money to blow, I would do it out of sheer curiosity. It'd be fun to have three identical dogs, give them all of the same training and stuff and study how they develop as individuals.
No, it would genetically be the same cat but not really the same.
Hell to da naw,..... seen to many scifi/horror movies, it never works out, ie Pet Cemetery ;-O... I agree with @okham, also I like getting to know the different personalities.
LoL, based on the heading I thought it meant would you accept $50K if you had to clone your pet, and I was thinking: "nahh, i already don't like that b*tch."
No matter what, wouldn't be the same. Freaky just thinking about it.
No.
There is no real reason to expect that Fluffy II will be much like the original Fluffy, in terms of personality and behaviour.
Besdies, if I had $50K, I'd throw some of it at my mortgage loan to get rid of the PMI I'm paying, and maybe something for my kids.
@baqui63: I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates that PMI... my wallet is pressing rape charges -- only another 10 years... :)
Or until I run into a large sum of money that comes from no where
Yup. I'd clone my ex's dog (that I raised, btw).
I think I'm down to 8 years, but it sucks big time, especially with daughter#1 in college for the next 3.5+ years and daughter#2 joining her in 1.5 years (though probably not at the same college).
NO! I saw that crazy clip on the news the other day about the lady that did it! Freakin' nuts if you ask me!
I wouldn't. I had the best dog ever when I was younger. Even if I had the money to waste, you'd have a similar-looking dog, but NOT the same dog! This is where the whole nature vs. nurture debate comes in. It might only sully the memories you have of the original.
No. I've loved many a pet but pet and $50k should not be in the same sentance.
What a giant waste of money. Their are thousands of excellent pets at the Humane Society that need a good home, I say go out and find one that you can appreciate and put a roof over it's head.
I would like to have that much money where this would even be an option. Still wouldn't.
The only way in which that would be a good idea would be if you lost a champion breeding animal. For example, I would certainly lay out $50,000 to clone Secretariat. Or Man-O-War! Wow! There are plenty of animal athletes and show animals whose genetic code is worth cloning in order to propagate that genetic code into the general population. But as far as cloning a pet for sentimental value? No, because a clone is a unique individual. It would make for an interesting experiment in nature versus nurture, but not worthwhile for reasons of sentimentality.
Something I didn't think about in my previous post in regards to the value of cloning for breeding purposes. Giant breed dogs have notoriously short lifespans. It's hard to selectively breed for a long lifespan, as you don;t know the animal will have a long lifespan until it has lived well past breeding age. If cloning were a viable option, you could clone those dogs that proved to have long lifespans and propagate that potential in future generations.
No way. You can't duplicate an animal or person. That takes the, for lack of a better way to putting it, the humanity out of them..
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