Cloning your pets

Jonas Strider · 12-23-2004, 12:51 PM

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

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

Hivetyrant · 12-23-2004, 12:56 PM

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

Lavindathar · 12-23-2004, 01:37 PM

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!

Arvon · 12-23-2004, 03:16 PM

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

Variol (Farseer) Elmwood · 12-23-2004, 03:46 PM

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

Maj · 12-23-2004, 04:14 PM

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?

Azred · 12-23-2004, 04:24 PM

No, it wouldn't. A clone of your favorite pet is not your favorite pet. Scientifically interesting, but creepy.

Aelia Jusa · 12-23-2004, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lavindathar:
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!

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

)! 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.

Maj · 12-23-2004, 04:41 PM

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

Kakero · 12-23-2004, 09:30 PM

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?

12-23-2004, 12:51 PM	#1
Jonas Strider Manshoon Join Date: July 28, 2004 Location: Seattle-Redmond WA Age: 58 Posts: 178	Wow! This is just insane IMO. Yet if you love your pet, ... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...4_kitty23.html __________________ Namaste

12-23-2004, 01:37 PM	#3
Lavindathar Harper Join Date: March 21, 2001 Location: Lancs, England Age: 40 Posts: 4,729	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! __________________ =@

12-23-2004, 03:16 PM	#4
Arvon Unicorn Join Date: October 4, 2001 Location: Kingdom of the West,..P.o. Cynagus Posts: 4,212	I wonder if you can clone a Chia pet? ( I don't know how to spell it). __________________ 53.7% of all statistics are made up

12-23-2004, 03:46 PM	#5
Variol (Farseer) Elmwood Jack Burton Join Date: May 16, 2003 Location: Dartmouth, NS Canada Age: 59 Posts: 5,634	I just lost my 16.5 year old dog last week and I would never even consider such a thing. __________________ A MAN WHO WANTS FOR NOTHING HAS INFINITE WEALTH. (me)

12-23-2004, 04:14 PM	#6
Maj Drow Warrior Join Date: December 30, 2002 Location: Colorado, USA Age: 39 Posts: 272	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? __________________ ...

12-23-2004, 12:56 PM	#2
Hivetyrant Jack Burton Join Date: August 24, 2002 Location: Aussie now in the US of A! Age: 38 Posts: 5,403	WOW!!! I think that is great. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] People should be able to clone their pets.... BUT $50,000!?!?!?!?!?! Thats insane!!!

12-23-2004, 04:24 PM	#7
Azred Drow Priestess Join Date: March 13, 2001 Location: a hidden sanctorum high above the metroplex Age: 55 Posts: 4,037	No, it wouldn't. A clone of your favorite pet is not your favorite pet. Scientifically interesting, but creepy. __________________ Everything may be explained by a conspiracy theory. All conspiracy theories are true. No matter how thinly you slice it, it's still bologna.

12-23-2004, 04:41 PM	#9
Maj Drow Warrior Join Date: December 30, 2002 Location: Colorado, USA Age: 39 Posts: 272	I've had a dog that I could almost swear was the reincarnation of one that had died. __________________ ...

12-23-2004, 09:30 PM	#10
Kakero 40th Level Warrior Join Date: March 24, 2002 Posts: 10,215	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?

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