Does this sound right?
“I try to prepare customers not to expect the same pet all over again. The new pet is not going to know who you are right off the bat.”
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe. These kittens were no different than any other, except that they’d been created in a lab. They were clones: genetically identical to their predecessor, now sadly deceased.
It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one of the first pets to be commercially cloned in the United States. Since then, a couple thousand dog, cat, and horse clones have followed, and every year the waiting list grows longer. Of course it does. Haven’t you ever wished your pet could live, if not forever, then at least as long as you? Now it can, sort of.
Emotionally, I certainly get it. My daughter still tells us she misses our dog, who died a year ago. We've been talking about adopting another dog, and she's excited about it, but she mostly wants her dog back.
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Life is full of ups and downs, and we have to get used to that from a young age. The dog will only be physically the same!
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Yeah, but we know she was a really good dog and our stupid brains would attach to the clone as though she were the original.
I wouldn't have a clone made, but if there were a clone of her, I'd want to adopt it.
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Well, it wouldn't be the same... and we could say that over time our mind could adapt to the idea that it is the same dog because it is the same... since our brain, if not properly trained... just as it believes in good things, it also believes in stupid things... so I think I would be lying to myself and especially to my children... it's been 3 Christmases this year that my son tells me that he misses his little black dog😓😓
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I'd consider it if it were affordable.
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Even knowing that it won't be the same pet? Why?
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It would still be a part of my pet.
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