Couple spends $155,000 to clone dead dog

[Benzgirl]

It's not my money or my place to judge how others spend their personal funds. I would give anything to clone one of my deceased dogs but I don't have the money.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by jwright25

Wouldn't the same thing happen to a clone?

yes, and every other organic being that lives long enough

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

It's not my money or my place to judge how others spend their personal funds. I would give anything to clone one of my deceased dogs but I don't have the money.

It wouldn't be exactly the same dog though. In some cases coat color isn't even exact.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I'll just stick to letting you guys do the linking. I have no clue what you just posted.

LOL. Translation:

Copy the website address for the page to which you want to link -- the part up at the top of your browser window that (usually) begins "http:// . . . ."

Go back to where you're typing in your GC message/response. Put your curser where you want to put in the link. Then look up at the toolbar immediately above where you're typing, and find the button that looks like this: .

Click on that button.

A little box will open up. In the part where there is a curser flashing, paste the website address you just copied.

Click "OK."

You have now placed the code for the link in your post. Keep typing until you have finished what you want to say.

When you hit "Preview Post" or "Submit Post," you'll be able to see and click on the link you just created.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

LOL. Translation:

Copy the website address for the page to which you want to link -- the part up at the top of your browser window that (usually) begins "http:// . . . ."

Go back to where you're typing in your GC message/response. Put your curser where you want to put in the link. Then look up at the toolbar immediately above where you're typing, and find the button that looks like this: .

Click on that button.

A little box will open up. In the part where there is a curser flashing, paste the website address you just copied.

Click "OK."

You have now placed the code for the link in your post. Keep typing until you have finished what you want to say.

When you hit "Preview Post" or "Submit Post," you'll be able to see and click on the link you just created.

I got it. I think? Thanks MC, but I think you forgot. I'm the girl who almost lost her computer to a virus that I thought was some kind of antivirus software. Remember me?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I got it. I think? Thanks MC, but I think you forgot. I'm the girl who almost lost her computer to a virus that I thought was some kind of antivirus software. Remember me?

LOL. No, I remembered. I'm just the eternal optimist.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Depends on how much temperament is influenced by "nature" and how much by "nurture."

This makes sense, but it's also genetically based.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

LOL. No, I remembered. I'm just the eternal optimist.

lol I don't know why, but that gave me the giggles.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

LOL. No, I remembered. I'm just the eternal optimist.

MC...I have to thank you also...I was reading ur response and was wondering where in heck all these options were and decided to go to my control panel and only then realized that my editor box was in BASIC mode and not STANDARD mode....didn't know I had so many options!

Thanks!!!

[agzg]

I think there was a story on This American Life a while back about a family who had this bull that was like a pet bull that they rented out for parties.

They had him cloned. New bull had nowhere near the temperament of original bull. I do believe someone got seriously injured.

[LadyDread2010]

That amout of money is also a life insurance policy. Or grad school.

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Me too. That would pay for all four years of my education.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by LadyDread2010

That amout of money is also a life insurance policy. Or grad school.

Vet school for me.

[AKA_Monet]

Then, last June — six months after Lance’s death — they learned the Northern California biotech firm BioArts International was holding a dog-cloning auction. They threw their hat in the ring, and won.
The cloning didn’t come cheap — the Ottos shelled out $155,000 for the opportunity. But it worked. BioArts partnered with Dr. Hwang S Woo-Suk, of the South Korea biotech research firm Sooam, to bring a second Lancelot into the Otto household.
An egg containing the late Lancelot’s DNA was placed in a Korean dog to create Lancelot Encore. Once the pup was able to leave his birth mother and go out on his own, he was flown from South Korea to San Francisco before finally making his way to Miami International Airport, where the Ottos were pacing with anticipation.

Ummm. Dr. Woo-Suk is up for scientific fraud for illegally cloning human embryos... Not only did he use some of female lab worker's eggs, the DNA that was "allegedly" put into them could not prove that the DNA used was clone... Typical, one uses a tag or a readily know marker.

So maybe the dog is a clone, but I am sorry but South Korea's QC protocols leave something to be desired... I'd trust the folks in Singapore or Beijing, China and definitely Chiba, Japan or even the Delhi University...

So basically the spent $115K on a dog they could of got for ~$150...

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by LadyDread2010

I can think of a lot more important things to spend that much money on.

I remember these people! They called Suze Orman on her "Can I Afford It?" segment to ask if they could afford to clone the dog. Their financial situation was solid enough for Suze to give her blessing... I guess they didn't waste any time after getting the green light from her. I don't understand it, but far be it from me to judge others and how they want to spend their $$$.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

So basically the spent $115K on a dog they could of got for ~$150...

and let's not forget...they already have 9 dogs...so what happens if one of the others die? Will they clone those dogs too?

Was Pet Cemetary not a lesson?