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In other pet news, animal cloning takes a leap forward with the quintupling of Booger the pit bull. Reminds me of the 2000 Schwarzenegger flick The 6th Day, where a mall boutique called RePet lets you walk in with your dead pet and walk out an hour later with your pooch or cat restored to exactly the way it was.

OK, so we're not yet at that point. Bernnan McKinney, the lady who owns Booger, wants us to get there now:

"I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone."

I don't know how long McKinney will have to wait or if it will even be in her lifetime, but my bet is that her dream will come true. One thing we've seen by studying the economics of technology is that today's luxuries are tomorrow's everyday goods. Cloning your pet may require you to sell your house today, but someday it may be just another item you buy in the mall.

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The Russians actually have the bones of ace German Shepherd, BLONDIE! These bones were more than charred from post mortem burning, but...it seems that they should still provide a gateway to cloning a new BLONDIE from history past, and with that, this would be amusing, as-well-as a unique, if not utterly scientifically eye-opening proceedure.
As for your pets, your friends in full fur suits, and our best friends really..Man, it does just seem a little much as much as I want to clone 'Mouse'--a totally genius dog, that is still active at 20 years of age! Now, as much as this dog is a total uplifting entity in my life, and friend...Folks, it just seems a damn bit wrong, if not just absurd really. Not summining the morals, but really the truthful aspects in that the clone may look like Mouse, but, it is not, and as such will be more like a $50k nightmare comparable to that movie PET CEMETERY! After reading this...no way! There's damn good guys in the pound, and to leave them for the 'hangman', well...THAT IS A MORALLY F*CKED!
BLONDIE, O.K.--LETS GO! BUT MOUSE, NOT! ITS TOO DAMN ODD TO RE-ANIMATE THE CELLS OF SIMILARITY INTO A FORM OF UNPREDICTABILITY!
In Blondie's case, I did not know her personally because she last took breath over 64 years ago inside the Fuhrer's Bunker, so, I have nothing to compare her to--other than her completely affectionate playtime films of the kind spirited shephard playing with Master, Adolf Hitler!
Oh, by the way, them Russkies have his, 'Uncle Adolf's' bones too, so, we could make it really interesting 'ehh?!

Tom of TX 10:23PM February 26, 2009

It's a new world emerging and it scares people. To me, this is just like the scare people had when automobiles hit the streets, or when nuclear chain reaction was going to destroy the world. Computers would become self aware and take over the world. I don't see anything wrong with: cloning, genetic engineering to fix flaws, correct diseases or crippling spinal cord break repair with stem cell bridging using undifferentiated cells. Sure, there needs to be some rules so we don't end up with half human half pig monsters, and need some form of control to prevent things like that from happening. I've heard you may someday grow your own replacement body parts (kidneys, etc) within your own body.
This is a new fronteer and a new world.

RCM of CO 1:34PM January 28, 2009

The cloned dog under current technology is much like an identical twin to the original. Unless you add an extreme environment that is quite different to the original one exposed to the donor dog, the response and personality of the clone will be very close to the original. There is no guarantee that the personality of the clone will not be the same as the original. Don't be scared to the technology. That is not the attempt of creation of new life from the dead cells. It just reprograms the live cells with the help of electric signal and abundant source of development related proteins provided by enucleated egg participants. It is just a little bit more advanced technology than in vitro fertilization. In addition, If you are people who are concerned about so many abandoned dogs in shelters, educate people not to kick their dogs off home to streets.

spearman of MD 11:40AM September 02, 2008

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