all dogs have such different personalities and all are special with being unqiue.
one of the things about dogs that I love is each is soo different..
that is what makes message boards fun and so on..too...can you just see a message board with all the same dog that is cloned..lol. had to add some humour to this kinda odd topic.

I know they are working on cloning people too I think..that is another whole different matter again.

just not for me..no cloning
happy with with I had, got and will have in my life with my dogs

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and would be uncosoliable if anything happened to her, I would not. It is not normal or natural.

Have you ever seen Pet Cemetary? That's what it makes me thnk of. Because no matter what my Audrey is MY Audrey, and I just do not believe that a cloned version would be 100% HER.

Cathy
when she first came home

But no. I'm sure my next bully will be just as special as Stella even though she is different.

she must have been so precious and sweet.


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And everything He creates is perfect....in the animal world anyway!

Amy and Sophia

I know that day will come and I will have to deal with it ..hopefully later then sooner.
but I have had great dogs in the past and now too and sure that i will in the future as well
at 1500000 that is alot of money..for cloning to be done

well said

excellent discussion at this site.

http://www.bioarts.com/press_release/ba09_09_09.htm

to say good by to her, I NEVER want it to come.. but in reality I am sure I wouldn't clone her..

Hope everyone has a great day

I have often wondered myself whether or not I would. But then I find myself thinking that as much as I grieved when my first bulldog crossed over, if I had had her cloned, I never would have brought Boo and Clovis into our family, and now Flynn too. And I'm just as crazy about them as I was for my first bulldog.







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January 29, 2009 - Losing a pet can be devastating, especially when disease claims their lives. The bonds formed between humans and their animal companions (as we've learned from Fable 2) can last a lifetime, if by lifetime you mean about a dozen years or so. One American couple decided that they did not want to say goodbye to their cancer stricken pooch, and instead opted to have an exact clone of their Labrador created in a lab (oh, the irony) immediately after the original puppy passed away.

DNA samples of Sir Lancelot were taken and frozen over six years ago at the request of Edgar and Nina Otto, a wealthy couple with an apparent fetish for the Knights of the Round Table. After succumbing to cancer last January in 2008, the DNA of Lancelot was brought to BioArts International in South Korea, where for £108,000 the biotech firm generated a perfect clone of the dog, now disturbingly named Lancelot Encore, like some lame PC music program.

Lancelot Encore is now the first single-birth commercially cloned puppy to reside in the United States. The Otto's, who at ages 66 (Nina) and 79 (Edgar) are no strangers themselves to having death lurking around every corner, were extremely satisfied with the process.

"He looked just like my original Lancelot," said Nina. "The most interesting thing about this Lancelot we notice he's bonded immediately within an hour with every other pets in the house. He's the Alpha dog!"

A rep from another South Korean BioTech firm has since come out and said that cloning a pet will soon cost less than half the price paid the Otto's. RNL Bio claims to have developed a new method for cloning dogs using stem cells derived from fat tissue. Two cloned beagle puppies were born recently using this technique, which the company hopes will reduce the cost of pet cloning to £35,000 within the next three years.

If affordable, would you clone your precious pooch? Would you name them Sir Galahad or King Arthur like a pair of rich old people? Share your comments below.

and you're right. Even if someone clones their dog, that doesn't guarantee they will have the exact same personality.





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As much as I would love to have Norbert still here with me I would never want to clone them.

We stumbled upon Booger quite by accident, shortly before Henry passed away. We made the decision to bring him home BECAUSE he was so different from Henry. I knew that when the time came for Henry to leave me, having such a polar opposite in Booger would help get me through losing my baby. Henry just couldnt be duplicated and it seemed wrong to bring home a puppy- either before or after he passed away- that was just like him.

Henry was laid back, quiet, almost all white in color... Booger was this almost solid brown, obnoxious, rowdy turd of a puppy that was terroizing his littermates and causing trouble. Henry was and will always be my only Henry. Cloning him would not have kept him from dying. It just would have replaced him with an identical look-alike. Who would want that?

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boomer my great dane was the love of my life....what he got me thru i cant put in words.....he passed from heart failure at only 5....if i could fix his heart have an extra 5 years i would...then Bob in a heart beat he was with me for 13 years....he was a only one of kind of boy.... what a dog he was....i never flt so safe...he took over for his father who took over for his father....
their are a few others i would love to have more time with....

as much as I never want to loose my babies, it would be too creepy to have an identical Bear.






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I lost Rocky in January. At the time I just wanted him back I don't think I would have wanted to clone him then and I know I wouldn't want to do it now.

A cloned Rocky would look like him but would not have his personality and I think I would be looking for that and it wouldn't be fair to the cloned dog.

taht was made into a movie. I haven't acrtually watched the movie because the book CREEPED me out!

Cathy
when she first came home

you would be able to see them as a puppy
but what is neat about a rescue is the wandering about their past and so on. I do that with my rescued pug all the time..wander why he was like growing up and such. although I can get baby pics If I want them from his past breeder. just never did..
kinda accept him for who he was when he came here at 6 months..
still curious what he was like as a puppy though

what makes dogs neat is each one is soo different and unqiue.
all my dogs are soo different
each has traits that make them who they are and sometimes traits that are not that great..lol.
time to leave nature alone I think
you are right it is creepy

no never seen Pet Cemmintary?? is that a movie?