Clone Your Favorite Dog
 

Check out this story from Fox News. You can clone your favorite dog.
The $150,000 is due if the cloning is successful.
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AP
Aug. 3, 2005: The cloned male Afghan hound dog ‘Snuppy,’ produced by researchers at Seoul National University in South Korea, is shown.
In a move possibly more fitting to a plot in Stephen King’s "Pet Sematary," a Korean company plans to offer animal lovers the chance to "bring back" their dead companions through cloning, the Guardian reported.

RNL Bio on Friday announced it would work with Seoul National University scientists, who created the first cloned canine, "Snuppy," to offer customers a re-creation of their deceased pet for $150,000.

The company received its first order from a California woman seeking to clone a dead pit bull that saved her life from an attack by another dog, the Guardian reported.

In working on Bernann McKunney’s request, scientists were to use preserved ear tissue from the dog and said the chance of success is around 25 percent.



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I don't believe in cloning it kind of messes with the circle of life. Plus that price is more money than most people make in 3-5 years

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Just think if you could clone Lean Mac --------- $4000 to $5000 per semen vial.
It wouldn't take long to get your investment back at all.


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Why would someone pay $4000-$5000 for semen from a dog when they could buy a perfectly trained dog for the same price or less.????

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So that they coud have 8 to 12 pups which would sell for $4000 to $5000 each. :eek:


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I love Dutch to death, and when he goes to fetch ducks for my grand-dad and all the waterfowlers in my family before him on that big impoundment in the sky, then thats where he belongs. No dog could ever replace him, and having a dog that was exactly in his likeness would just make me miss him even more when he does pass on.

Besides, if it wasn't for me working with Dutch, and all that we have been through together, he wouldn't be anything but a plate licker anyway.

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There was a movement once, albeit a short one, that tried to raise funds to clone Count Noble (the Llewellin setter mounted in the dog hall of fame). But it fizzled mainly because Count Nobleof yesterdaycouldn't compete in the FTs of today.

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Again why would anyone buy a pup for $4000-$5000 when they can buy a perfectly trained dog for that much.
Its hard to sellsomething that no one would want to buy

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They could clone Tomoka Sunrise or Snakefoot Ehlew and sell pups for aleast that much. Why? Because their prodigy wins field trails and FTs are big business.

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I'm guessing you don't know too much about dogs with titles like NFC, do ya?


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Even if you cloned a dog, it wouldn't be the same dog in any way except common genetics, which does not mean the dogs would act the same or respond to stimuli in the same way.

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titles don't mean $#!+ its the dog that matters. I have a purebreed gsp that is gunshy, if you cloned her, you wouldn't get a gunshy dog, you would get a dog with the same genes, but a completely differnt personality, Just because a dog looks good on paper doesn't mean it can perform in the field.

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I've heard of beagle Field Champions (FCs) going for $25k. Def. not the norm, but I've sold a few for several thousand $ which is "cheap" compared to some friends dogs they sell for 5-10K, some aren't even finished yet. You're right, it's only worth what someone will pay, but some guys that have the $ would rather spend it than takea few years training 20 dogs only to have 1 or 2 outstanding ones. I can't afford to do that, so I train most of my own. Plus I enjoy it, it's a hobby that is quite addicting and it lets me bond and spend time w/ my dogs.

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Think of field trials likestock car racing with the dog being like the driver+ car. Now, if you could clone, say, Dale Earnhardt Sr.; the clone would be a different person but with the capacity (reaction time, etc.) of winningraces if given the right circumstances. The same with the dog.

I say driver and car because although your chevy, ford or whatever is great for the road (just like the dog is great for you) it isn't ready for the race track;just as an untrained dog isn't ready forfield trials. In this case, the mechanic could completely redo your vehicle to prepare it for the track and the trainer can train the dog to a standard for field trails.

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My pheasant dog, casey, the best dog i ever have had and i bet will ever have. even out of the feild she is great, with kids, our horses, and cats. she is most useful dog i could imagine b/c she will fetch beer straight from the fridge on demand. but as much as the family and i love her i would never clone a dog, god never meant for any form of life to be cast into a mold exactly the same as it's forerunner

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i would never clone my dog because i believe it would take away from who that dog really was and how special they were, its like cloning your dad they wont be the same dad. As for field trial dogs you can not improve upon dogs genetics if your using the same dogs over and over. The agriculture industry doesnt want cloned animals they want better animals. Anyway i also agree with cloneing causing a glitch in the circle of life.

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Heck a lot of Llewellin's sell for quite a price tag anyway!

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Or maybe Millers Chief.