Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

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Did we learn nothing from Pet Cemetery?

Sematary, r2

I feel like this is taking advantage of the mentally ill or something, exploiting irrational emotions. You are certainly not bringing “your” pet back. How about adopt another living pet in need?

I'm too lazy to read. A clone can be ordered after a pet has died? Are they really cloning "dead pets"? What do you do, send in a hair?

Makes no sense when so many animals are without homes and euthanized

Don’t cloned animals age faster?

I lost my 15 year old tuxedo cat last year. I'll just buy or adopt another tuxedo kitten.

People are crazy.

Only if I were made of money.

But I'm not.

I would do it!

Cloned animals usually have tons of medical issues

In Springfield - they're cloning the dogs, they're cloning the cats.

I quit reading about halfway through. The process sounds... it lacks dignity and when I say dignity I don't mean white gloves and finger sandwiches, I mean common sense and respect.

This is absolutely just because you can doesn't mean you should.

"It's wrong. It's shockingly wrong!"

I think it's ridiculous because there are so many cats and dogs living in rescues and pounds. I know it's hard to say goodbye to a pet so I don't hold it against people.

How is this legal?

While pets are euthanized in the shelters. smh

It’s not the money. The money is irrelevant and insignificant.

It’s the fact that my sweet dog, version 2.0, wouldn’t be the exact same and it would break my heart.

Also, I’m pretty sure this is the start of a horror movie or a Steven King book.

I think it partly depends on if you believe animals have souls. I don't believe a cloned animal would possess the same soul as the previous pup, or it would be highly unlikely if it did. So it's not really going to be the same animal, regardless of how it appears.

I also believe that our dog's souls can come back to us, just maybe in a different body. Maybe your beloved companion will come back to you, you never know, but I don't think you'd need to resort to cloning for them to come back.

Personally, I don't think it is our place to tamper with things in this way; it is our egotistical god complex that makes us think we can mess with the divine order of things, without consequence. But obviously these are just my personal beliefs, and others are free to feel and think differently.

The real Streisand effect

To expect a puppy to have a dead dog's "personality" is a new height in mental retardation.

JFC.

Christ All-Fucking Mighty -- I don't even believe that [italic]people[/italic] have souls, much less dogs.

But I still wouldn't torture them like the Amish do.

If you don't believe me, look up "Amish puppy mills."

The pathetic part—well, one of the pathetic parts—is that a “clone” can’t be the same animal. Even though the DNA is identical there are so many variables involved that the new animal will inevitably be different. You can’t buy your way out of death for $50,000. It still doesn’t work like that.