Doc E

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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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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crazycoonhunterNE

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

Doc E

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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crazycoonhunterNE

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.????

Doc E

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


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SwampCollie

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.

Mite

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.

crazycoonhunterNE

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

Mite

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.

Doc E

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


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