What would you bid to clone your pooch?
Filed under: Extracurriculars
BioArts International is scheduled to hold an unprecedented online auction in June. According to the New York Times, They will sell off their services to clone five dogs. The lucky bid winners are expected to fork over well in excess of the starting bids of $100,000 (that's $700,000 in dog dollars).
The company will work with a South Korean firm that has already made a carbon copy of an Afghan. Sooam Biotch Research Foundation's scientist Hwang Woo-suk (no giggles, please) was part of the team that falsely claimed to have cloned stem cells in 2004. This time, though, the company is doggone sure it can live up to its promise.
While I dearly love my pets, I can't help but think of how many I could rescue from the pound for $100,000. Also, who knows how a pet will mature in a different time, with older owners? What is worse than a bad dog from the pound? One you paid $100 grand for.
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6-01-2008 @ 2:51PM
maxi-moo said...
Tom, it would be nice to have $100,000 to spend on reducing the homeless pet population but it would go further if you spent it on prevention such as by supporting affordable spay/neuter programs and educating pet owners to spay/neuter. It's wonderful when people adopt pets from shelters, and it's important they really want the pet because relinquishment of an unwanted pet is part of the problem. For all we know, the rich pet lovers who can afford pet cloning are donating more to solve pet homelessness than non-rich pet lovers, so I have no beef with them -- and it's kinda cool that mutt owners can now get another dog with the exact same mix. And presumably the folks who do this ain't gonna relinquish their new dogs!
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