Anyone read Pet Cemetery? ~Bringing your pet back from the dead.

[Karajan]

http://savingsandclone.com/index2.html

I'm sure cloning has been talked about here, but I wasn't aware that it come so far as to actually be offered commercially for pets.

It just seems fucking creepy to me. I mean, if I had a pet that I loved and it died...having it cloned and having the same pet again...that's just disturbing.

I'm just curious what everyone here thinks, and if anyone actually thinks this is a good thing, and why.

[f1 racer]

I think its good, but I'm don't know much about cloning. My one question is, are it's feelings the same? Like if you had a nice one, would the cloning one be nice? Or if like your old dog was a quiet one, never really barked, would the clone one be the same?

Kind of stupid questions, but I was just wondering if this was true/false.

[MGselwonK]

it would look the same but its personality wouldnt be the same


if it was brought up in identical conditions it would theoretically be the same dog, but in most cases things will change

its really just making an identical twin, it will probably have different traits

[krackel]

it would look the same but its personality wouldnt be the same


if it was brought up in identical conditions it would theoretically be the same dog, but in most cases things will change

its really just making an identical twin, it will probably have different traitscloning doesnt clone stripe patterns though, so while the two animals look similar, they wont neccisarily have the same markings

[Ydirre]

I think it's stupid, but of course there will be people who will spend alot of money on cloning their beloved lapdog... And it won't even act the same at all, just look the same. And changes are it doesn't even look the same! What use is there in that?? Just get some poor thing from an asylum, enough beasties there that need love, or just get a new one of the same breed if you want to spend more money and it HAS to have official papers and descending from Fiffy the IV...

I wonder who will buy the first cloned pet just to show off... Bah.

[droogsteve]

These people need to get a grip. It costs around $50,000 and despite what these morons think, it's a completely different dog. Sorry idiots, Rex has gone to puppy heaven and he ain't comin' back. Just save the $49,500, go to a breeder and get a puppy that looks like your old dog.

These people remind me of the idiots who say "OMG, what if they clone Hitler??!!!" They can't come to grips with the fact that it's a completely different person. For all intents and purposes, I AM a clone. I'm an identical twin and have the exact same DNA profile as my brother. But we are completely different in temperment and personality. It's would be funny as fuck if some old lady spent 50 g's to clone her beloved Fluffy and the new Fluffy 2 attacked her whenever she walked in the room.

BTW, if I'm in the mood to piss off my brother, I point out the fact that if I took a DNA paternity test it would show that I was the father of his daughter. Then I bring up the time that I drove his daughter's mother home alone from a party, just the two of us, because he was too drunk. :lol:

[lcstinky]

Well...this is pretty stupid, when there's tons of available pets on death row out there. But I don't really have a problem with the ethics involved in cloning a pet, just the ethics of bringing new ones into the world when so many already exist in need of homes.

BTW, if I'm in the mood to piss off my brother, I point out the fact that if I took a DNA paternity test it would show that I was the father of his daughter. Then I bring up the time that I drove his daughter's mother home alone from a party, just the two of us, because he was too drunk. :lol:Ouch! I guess he really does differ in temperament.