Dog Cloning: Business of the Future?

Cloning: A New Fronteer

It's a new world emerging and it scares people. To me, this is just like the scare people had when automobiles hit the streets, or when nuclear chain reaction was going to destroy the world. Computers would become self aware and take over the world. I don't see anything wrong with: cloning, genetic engineering to fix flaws, correct diseases or crippling spinal cord break repair with stem cell bridging using undifferentiated cells. Sure, there needs to be some rules so we don't end up with half human half pig monsters, and need some form of control to prevent things like that from happening. I've heard you may someday grow your own replacement body parts (kidneys, etc) within your own body.

This is a new fronteer and a new world.

RCM of CO @ Jan 28, 2009 13:34:35 PM

Will the cloned dog be the same as the original?

The cloned dog under current technology is much like an identical twin to the original. Unless you add an extreme environment that is quite different to the original one exposed to the donor dog, the response and personality of the clone will be very close to the original. There is no guarantee that the personality of the clone will not be the same as the original. Don't be scared to the technology. That is not the attempt of creation of new life from the dead cells. It just reprograms the live cells with the help of electric signal and abundant source of development related proteins provided by enucleated egg participants. It is just a little bit more advanced technology than in vitro fertilization. In addition, If you are people who are concerned about so many abandoned dogs in shelters, educate people not to kick their dogs off home to streets.

spearman of MD @ Sep 02, 2008 11:40:53 AM

Interview with lady who cloned service dog in Korea

Would you like to interview the handicapped lady who cloned her beloved service dog after he got cancer? They really cloned an EXCEPTIONAL DOG because I knew both him and her...it is so much more amazing than the news stories tell it...Let me know and I will get you her phone number...She would prefer Amanda Gardner or Steve to do it as follow up stories to ones they already did, but much more investigative and scientific material...She can also get you interviews with the star gene scientist who did the world's first dog cloning at Seoul National University. (He also cloned a cancer sniffing dog and drug sniffing dogs for Korean customs!) --They are Dr. Lee and Dr. Ra at Seoul National University. The last press conference was packed wall to wall, but no one told the story from HER side in depth at all. If interested please E mail me but do not print this as a comment as I don't want my E mail given out over the internetl THANKS.

eb of CA @ Aug 18, 2008 15:02:00 PM

Dog Cloning

It is hard to lose your pet. But cloning is not the way to get your pet back. Death is a part of life, and it is important to let go as part of the process of loving your pet. There are so many stray animals that need a home. why don't you love your pet through them and adopt one? if you can get a pet or continue to have a pet, give your love and time to a defenseless , homeless animal. I think cloning can only be applied in cases where a rare genetic trait needs to be passed along, like in the case of the cancer cells sniffing dog, otherwise it is an anethical , risky and selfish practice.

Vanina Wills of RI @ Aug 18, 2008 11:11:55 AM

I will spend my money however I please free of the judgement of others

I lost my beloved Shih Tzu,Charlie last year and it hurt terribly. As one poster said, "it wasn't enough time". I have a new dog now, however I miss Charlie terribly. I would have had him cloned if I had the chance (I have the money). Whether people spend the $50,000 on a car, home improvement, boat, a wedding, a vacation, it's a person's choice and own money. They should be able to spend it as they please free of the judgement of others and not treated as a pariah nor a criminal.

Lucy C. of CA @ Aug 17, 2008 19:27:50 PM

Oh yeah...one more thing: Booger's Mom (the handicapped lady) toured the entire facility in Korea at Seoul National University...and "No animals were harmed in the making of this Cloning"...

eb of CA @ Aug 13, 2008 04:20:11 AM

I have known the lady cloning the beautiful puppies for twelve years. She has the biggest heart around for animals and has done rescues all her life. She currently has three pound dogs, one rescued from the street, and another from the hurricane which had a broken leg which she fixed up. She also bought $200 dollars worth of food for the mother dog in Korea because she was worried it was too thin after nursing puppies (AS HAPPENS TO ALL MOTHER DOGS WHO NURSE-- YOU DUMMIES!!) UNLIKE YOU, the Koreans were kind and gentle and caring, full of compassion and understanding for her terrible loss of her service dog who was her "hands" after she had her arms reconstructed after an amputation! You critics are so full of prunes. How many dogs have YOU rescued in YOUR house? (SHE has FIVE!) And do you expect her to adopt all eighty million pound dogs in this world? (She would if she could, her heart is so big.) And do YOU know what it is like to be handicapped and to have to have a service dog take off your socks, get your laundry for you and open your door? Because the new puppies, with their exceptional genes of Service Dog Booger, will be TRAINED to DO just that. So if you HYPOCRITES aren't honest enough to learn the TRUTH about this story, then go take a hike. Or better still, take a Compassion Pill!

eb of CA @ Aug 13, 2008 04:12:21 AM

The Obvious Nature of Things

Aside from our infinite capacity to be fascinated with our own cleverness, the genuine triumph of the scientific research involved, the non-infinite nature of resources spent on animals when people are ignored, the legitimate and heartfelt grief of pet lovers, the intermediate half-successes that must ultimately be discarded as apart of this process, the medical/moral ethics involved, etc., etc., nobody seems to be considering a basic fact of Life here.

All the things which we value, we value because of there uniqueness. Is Love that transferable that if you break or lose or smash something of value, you can simply replace it, and love the replacement? Doesn't it ultimately dilute your Love for a pet (or a person for that matter,) if you can view them as a replaceable commodity? What of all the experiences that were shared, just a "do-over?"

This is not the nature of our existence. If every day is a warm, sunny, temperate day, eventually you lose your appreciation for warm, sunny, days. Dessert for every meal and soon you grow bored and long for vegetables.

Yielding to this impulse is a conventional human desire, but what gives us value is our transitional nature, the need to do right, live well, Love, and fight the good fight, and come to the most favorable conclusion we can within a finite existence. Great novels eventually come to the last words in the final chapter.

I'm a pet lover enough that I hesitate to even call them "pets." I'd rather call them companions. My dog today is hale and hearty, and I already dread the coming day that's barreling down the road at me like a truck with bad brakes when he passes away. But I'd rather die than cheapen my Love for that animal by trying to duplicate that Love with a copied version of him. I'll eventually have other dogs, and I hope I'll love them as well in their own uniqueness, but I won't be writing endless sequels to a splendid tale.

...And the horrifying, truly dangerous aspect of this will be when we inevitably try to apply this to ourselves.

Fredrick L. Franko of NY @ Aug 07, 2008 11:11:47 AM