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30 Jan 2009, 12:05 am

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Well that's creepy beyond belief. Why would they want to clone their dog? When a beloved pet dies, yes it's very sad, but why clone it? It will NEVER be the same dog. it may look just like the dog, and act like it, but it isn't the dog. I find that creepy and weird.
What do you guys think?


I think that $155,000, is better spent on something else. who the hell has that much to blow??? I thinks it's just wrong!



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30 Jan 2009, 12:18 am

I agree with you. And yes, that is a lot of $$ to pay for a dog. I guess there are some people that love their pets as much as their own family members. This reminds me of a story I saw on Ripley's BION about how this guy inbalmed his wife and kept her in an open casket in the next room to him.

Call it love, attachment, crazyness, or whatever, it's still kind of creepy.



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30 Jan 2009, 12:26 am

SilverStar wrote:
I agree with you. And yes, that is a lot of $$ to pay for a dog. I guess there are some people that love their pets as much as their own family members. This reminds me of a story I saw on Ripley's BION about how this guy inbalmed his wife and kept her in an open casket in the next room to him.

Call it love, attachment, crazyness, or whatever, it's still kind of creepy.
I love my pets like they are family members but if my brother dies i'm not gonna go off and clone him.

I saw a thing like that too. This man built a sort of tomb shrine thing for his wife, he had her embalmed and he'd sit in there and talk to her, and eat with her, and do all sorts of things.



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30 Jan 2009, 8:42 am

didn't a child accidently cut the dead woman and to everyone's suprise she started to heal? if so i saw it too.

i didn't think cloning was legal but i guess korea's got the right idea, i think it's stupid to spend so much on a pet and only naive people would do such a thing but cloning on the whole is something i agree with.

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"When he crosses his front legs over each other while lying down, that's when we'll know he's the same," said Ed Otto.


do they realise only the DNA was cloned and that the memories and interests will be different? if lancelot crossed his legs because it was more comfortable then the clone might do the same, if it was a tric taught to him however they'll just have to teach him 'again'.


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30 Jan 2009, 8:53 am

familiar_stranger wrote:
didn't a child accidently cut the dead woman and to everyone's suprise she started to heal? if so i saw it too.

i didn't think cloning was legal but i guess korea's got the right idea, i think it's stupid to spend so much on a pet and only naive people would do such a thing but cloning on the whole is something i agree with.

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"When he crosses his front legs over each other while lying down, that's when we'll know he's the same," said Ed Otto.


do they realise only the DNA was cloned and that the memories and interests will be different? if lancelot crossed his legs because it was more comfortable then the clone might do the same, if it was a tric taught to him however they'll just have to teach him 'again'.


It was a dead embalmed woman, how could she heal??? :? :? It doesn't sound like a trick they taught him. It sounds like it was one of those things he did frequently, and they took notice of. Something their other dogs don't do.