YOUR DOG WOULD NEVER DIE…

Maybe the title was too radical, unfortunately, your dog is going to die, this is the most biological thing that can happen, but now, thanks to technology, you can clone him and have your friend again!

The first successful cloning of a dog, was in 2005, carried out by a team of researchers based at Seoul National University (South Korea). The team collected skin cells from the ear of an Afghan hound named Tai. They utilized these cells to produce two clones. The science of dog cloning has been much refined since this first instance in 2005 and there are now many companies across the world that offer this service.

The technique to clone a dog is surprisingly simple from a theoretical standpoint. DNA from the dog to be cloned is collected from the skin or other live cells. While the cloned DNA is being processed, a donor egg is collected from a female dog and emptied of its DNA by removing the nucleus. The cloned dog's DNA is injected into the empty egg and fused with the embryonic contents. This embryo is then implanted into a surrogate female dog who carries and delivers the cloned puppy.

With a price tag of A$50,000-A$100,000, cloning your dog or other pet will be prohibitively expensive for most people. People may also be deterred by the disappointment that the clone isn’t exactly the same as their original pet.
It’s likely that for those who are able to pay the money, they are likely to accept and love their clone, even if it isn’t identical because it preserves a link to the pet they’ve lost.
But treasuring the memory of a much-loved pet, and maybe forming new memories with a new pet is likely to remain the norm.

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Selective breeding has led to the belief that you can breed temperaments and personality traits in dogs and whilst this is true to a certain extent, the cloned dog will never be completely the same as its cell donor. Whilst you may still expect cloned animals to be visual replicas, there is also no guarantee that the clones will even look the same.

Clone or not to clone?? It´s truly a big moral discussion.

 "She looks the same, smells the same, and has most of the same habits—and I never taught any of them to her." Those are the words of the family of Nubia, the first puppy to be cloned in the United States.

“People are making a big mistake if they think they’re going to get their old pet back.” Those are the words of an Ivy League animal ethics professor who has serious concerns about the effects of cloning. Clearly, the topic of pet cloning is a controversial one.

There is an obvious ethical problem with cloning in that huge resources are put into producing cloned dogs when so many dogs are being abandoned in shelters every day. But there is also a hidden cost. Cloning is terribly inefficient, and the cost is other dogs.
To achieve Snuppy, over 1000 embryos were implanted in the uterus of more than 120 surrogate dogs. This resulted in only three pregnancies.