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Martyn
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 Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: world's first commercial cloning of a pet dog |
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A woman has stumped up £25,000 for five identical copies of Booger, her pit bull terrier and now has five identical copies of her pet.
Woud you clone your dog?
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cressy
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Nope - love them all but cloning just seems wrong to me for anything but medical advances and even that is fraught. If we all accept cloning pets etc etc where do we draw a line???????????
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newbie
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Definately not i think its totaly mad, for me thats what i love about my dogs their indivduality (looks and personality) and if one of them died i wouldnt want an exact copy to replace it.
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Helen
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Location: Lancashire
Breed: GWP, English Setter, ESS, Pointer
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I saw that on the lunchtime news. Not something I would do at all!
It will raise the questions - nature or nurture?
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Martyn
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| being able to clone a crufts supreme champion for all time - would present some problems for the Kennel Club |
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windem bang
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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Location: central scotland
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It would prove - interesting - if a field trial champion was cloned and the clone was sold to a mediocre handler who trained and trialled it , the dogs results would be very different . Making a good gundog has quite a lot to do with nurture.
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countrygirl
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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Location: Wilthshire
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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even if you cloned the best show dog in the world judges opinions differ and others would not think it so wonderful.
Caz
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Claire
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I only have one word for this - WRONG 
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Liz
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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Location: Scottish Borders
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The whole idea is sick. Even if you get a physical double of your dog, you'll never get a mental copy, and it's the dog's character that's most important - to me anyway.
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Helen
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Did you see the Daily Mail yesterday about this woman?? lol
Someone on an email list was saying she was sure it was her, before the news broke in the Daily Mail!
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