Cloning your dog.

[Catherine]

Cloning is now possible and for a mere $100,000 it can be done.

A family with a beloved dog had him cloned twice.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots...re-100-000

That is $200,000! That is a lot of money for two dogs.
I never even thought about the issue of the other dogs involved in the procedure. I am sure they are treated well....as long as they are useful.
Once their usefulness ends, I suspect they end!

Cloning can be done, but I have to wonder if there are good reasons to do it. It certainly doesn't give you your pet back. The dog might look the same, but it is a different dog. Identical twins are still two separate people with different personalities.
Is it fair to the cloned dog. It could never live up to expectations. It never gets to be its own dog, it is always being compared to the dog it was cloned from.

Really that much money could help save a lot of dogs in trouble in any part of the world. Wouldn't it honour the memory of a beloved pet more to do something good in its name?