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I Cloned My Pet on TLC
Did anybody else watch this show? I didn't plan on it, but the tv was on and then I couldn't look away.
My biggest feeling was that those people needed therapy. And I say that with love, not snarkiness. The level of grief they showed over the death of their previous dogs was a serious unhealthy level-it consumed their entire lives. Regardless of who or what has died in your life, you need to find some way to move on from it. And paying $50,000 for a clone of your old dog isn't moving past it.
Second, they keep expecting the clones to remember things. They are new animals, and they aren't going to remember old things.
The whole thing left me pretty uneasy about the whole idea really.
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Re: I Cloned My Pet on TLC
I am ashamed to say I watched this! The whole thing is strange. But I agree that the strangest part is expecting the clones to have memories and be the same dog...how do they reconcile that when, like in the Wolfie case, the owner got TWO clones? Which is Wolfie?
And it made me so sad to think about the poor surrogate mothers who are probably stuck in lab cages all day every day, until they're too old to breed, and then who even knows what happens to them?
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I think it was actually just a special, not a series. But I could be wrong. I was doing laundry with it in the background and got sucked in.
To be honest, it was a little interesting because I had no idea that people actually did this. And it was a little crazy when the puppy had the exact markings as the original dog. And obviously the puppies were cute, because they were adorable puppies. But mostly it was just creepy.
I also agree that I felt bad for the surrogate mom dogs.
cuz it's A CLONE.
that's what blew my mind the most, the woman was so shocked that her puppy "looked so much like trouble"....IT'S A GENETIC COPY. IT LOOKS THE EXACT SAME.
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Fail. Coat genetics are weird, and coat color is determined by the activation and deactivation of certain genes during fetal development. This is why identical twin cats and dogs almost certainly exist, but it's impossible to tell by appearance, and a DNA test would be required. This article explains it a little.
Also, I can think of a lot of things to spend $50K on besides cloning a pet. I love my dogs to death, but I'd rather donate $50K to the shelters they came from and adopt new dogs than waste that money cloning them. Good Lord.
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