Born-Again Pets Will Cost You

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed)
Feb 19th 2008 at 4:02PM

I had kind of forgotten about the whole cloning thing since it hasn't beat Britney out of the news in quite some time but when I came across this woman's payment of $50,000 to recreate her beloved pit bull Booger I just had to check it out. Apparently, this practice is available in Korea and typically costs $150,000 but since the owner was willing to allow the event to be publicized RNL Bio is giving her a discount. Their hope is to bring back about 500 pets each year as the business grows. Sounds like quite the profitable gig!

Tags: booger, cloning, dog-cloning, pet-cloning, RNL-Bio, snuppy, stem-cells

Filed under: Services, Pets

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B Feb 20th 2008 8:12AM

So one point that might interest your readers: you can pay to have your pet cloned, but you may not get the pet your expecting. Aside from 'Nature vs. Nurture' affecting the temperament and personality of your pet, the pet itself may not look the same. Cats require two genes to define the colour and pattern of their coats, one from the male and one from the female. Cloning from a single gene would give you a cat with a different coat. I would imagine dogs are the same ... though I am not entirely sure.