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12 Reasons You Don’t Want to Clone Your Pet
So maybe your animal, who was of course the best animal in the whole goddamn world, died, and you’d do anything to bring them back. You heard about that cloning thing; it was so long ago that Dolly was cloned (1996, but announced 1997) that by now they should be able to clone your best friend with ease. In fact, plenty of dogs and cats and other animals have been cloned around the world. But let’s look at some facts about the pet cloning industry:
1. If your pet has died more than a few days ago, it is too late to save their cells for cloning. For those who are thinking about cloning, more people are opting to do a biopsy on their living pet to preserve the cells in the event of their death, or in the event that cloning becomes more affordable.
2. Prices fluctuate but it can cost $50,000-$150,000 to clone a dog and $35,000 to clone a cat, at least.
3. You don’t know if you will get zero, one, five, or more new pets. So you better have space for ten!
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strangebiology:
12 Reasons You Don’t Want to Clone Your Pet
So maybe your animal, who was of course the best animal in the whole goddamn world, died, and you’d do anything to bring them back. You heard about that cloning thing; it was so long ago that Dolly was cloned (1996, but announced 1997) that by now they should be able to clone your best friend with ease. In fact, plenty of dogs and cats and other animals have been cloned around the world. But let’s look at some facts about the pet cloning industry:
1. If your pet has died more than a few days ago, it is too late to save their cells for cloning. For those who are thinking about cloning, more people are opting to do a biopsy on their living pet to preserve the cells in the event of their death, or in the event that cloning becomes more affordable.
2. Prices fluctuate but it can cost $50,000-$150,000 to clone a dog and $35,000 to clone a cat, at least.
3. You don’t know if you will get zero, one, five, or more new pets. So you better have space for ten!
Keep reading
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