How much is that clone in the window?

Post by **Skylace** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:28 pm

[web]https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7246380.stm[/web]

Post by **faceless** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:36 pm

Vanity like this really gets my hackles up.

Post by **Skylace** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:43 pm

faceless wrote:Vanity like this really gets my hackles up.

Just interested, but how do you see this as vanity?

Post by **faceless** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:00 pm

It's vanity because the person wants to preen their memories rather than accepting the reality of death. The fact that the character of the dog would be different mustn't bother them in the slightest - it's about their ego and nothing else.

Post by **Skylace** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:28 pm

I don't know about that. If I were to clone my dog I would realize it would be more like having one of her pups, not her exactly. There would be differences in personality but then their would be similarities.
I honestly wish I had one of Puck's pups, but I believe in getting my dogs fixed as I know I couldn't have kept an entire litter.

Post by **faceless** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:36 pm

I see your point there, my dog Ringo died about 11 years ago and I still miss him occasionally. But the enjoyment I got from having him about is something that happened naturally and to create what is effectively an unnatural copy (for thousands of quid) just bothers me. I couldn't do it in the knowledge that even half of that money could have gone to helping many other living healthy dogs (or, god forbid, children!)

Post by **Skylace** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:39 pm

faceless wrote:I see your point there, my dog Ringo died about 11 years ago and I still miss him occasionally. But the enjoyment I got from having him about is something that happened naturally and to create what is effectively an unnatural copy (for thousands of quid) just bothers me. I couldn't do it in the knowledge that even half of that money could have gone to helping many other living healthy dogs (or, god forbid, children!)

Now I agree with that point entirely. For me it is the money cost. Like I said, I wish I had one of Puck's pups, but I don't and there is nothing I can do about it. But I do have two other lovely dogs I love as well who I got from the Humane Society.
I don't know if I could make a copy of one of my dogs, but I can understand why people would want to.

Post by **faceless** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:01 pm

A cloned dog, a Mormon in mink-lined handcuffs and a tantalising mystery

I'm sure most of you will have seen the story about the woman on the news this week who mortgaged her house to pay for clones of her dog. Well, the Daily Mail with all their journalistic integrity have dug up this story about her:

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According to them it was just a saucy incident, not just plain rape as it would have been had the roles been reversed...

luke · Post by **luke** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:15 pm

thats crazy, and yeah - if the roles had been swapped they wouldn't be covering it like they have or putting rape in quote marks 'rape'