Wow! This is just insane IMO. Yet if you love your pet, ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...4_kitty23.html

WOW!!! I think that is great. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
People should be able to clone their pets....
BUT $50,000!?!?!?!?!?! Thats insane!!!

<font color="cyan">I'd rather just get a new pet, as much as I love my dogs at the momemnt, they are unique.....I wouldnt want another just like them!</font>

I wonder if you can clone a Chia pet? ( I don't know how to spell it).

I just lost my 16.5 year old dog last week and I would never even consider such a thing.

I know I would be very upset at losing any of my beloved pets, but I'm not sure I could do such a drastic thing. I mean would it really be the same to have a clone?

<font color = lightgreen>No, it wouldn't. A clone of your favorite pet is not your favorite pet. Scientifically interesting, but creepy. </font>

Yes, I agree! And like Azred said, a biological clone is not going to be exact same pet in its temperament and behaviour, because those things are not completely biologically determined. I had a friend whose family dog died. He was a dear little corgi or something similar. Anyway, pretty much the weekend after he died, they had located a breeder to get the exact same dog again and they called it the same name. Of course, it was a puppy and not an old, slow adult dog, and had a different temperament and wasn't the same dog at all (duh :rolleyes: )! And they were irritated with it because it wasn't the reincarnation of their beloved pet. They really did that poor little dog a disservice by expecting it to be the same and then not loving it as much when it wasn't.

I've had a dog that I could almost swear was the reincarnation of one that had died.

Cool! if this was few years earlier I could have cloned my king cobra. Wouldn't it be nice to have the house littering with snakes? :D