Just look at that face. He's worth it. Besides, if cloing becomes commercially viable, more money will be poured into it and that will allow advancements in technology, such as genetics.

A new fight will rage forever now. Those that want it, those that are horrified. I suggest an ethics panel moderated by the fab Larry Elder for both sides to partake in on public television so both sides fully and respectfully hear each others views. I predict no one then will change their minds. A new Middle East is brewing. I do not claim to know the answer intellectually but it really feels wrong and spooky to me personally. But I understand missing a loved one but is it the loved one? Broken hearts are so hard to mend, if ever.

How many rejects and deformities were created in order to cull one healthy puppy. Who is the surrogate mom and what happened to her? Hmmmm. The story only seems to tell one side. Hard to imagine any uglyness associated with such a cute puppy.

the problem i personally have is that in order for the current dog to have the same personnality, it theoretically as to have the same life experiences at the same time on its life-line. why not just buy another dog that looks very similar to the previous dog and donate the remaining money to the local humane society?

@Dog this is nuclear transfer cloning - followed by implantation into the uterus of a Korean dog (insert joke). Failure would mean the cell doesn't implant and germinate into a fetus, followed by delivery. There are no rejects or deformities to be expected (unless you consider spontaneous abortions).

My concern is that the dog has some mutations predisposing it to cancer - and hence they created a dog that will similarly die of cancer years down the road. I am not a canine cancern expert, but I assume cancer in dogs has a higher heritable component vs human cancer.

exactly hotdixon. anyomne who has had a dog that was loved deeply know how much it hurts when the dog dies.

but there is already an overpopulation of dog in the US. dogs that may never get a home, and go from shelter to shelter and foster to foster. some euthanised due to lack of room. that's why this looks decadent to me. im not saying to replace ur beloved dog just to robotically get those emotions again. im saying give another dog a chance to do the same thing the first friend did.

this is great technologically speaking but how small minded when so many dogs die every day. once we get on board with some better dog ownership/licensure/alteration laws THEN this should become an option and not before. though i suppose the cost severely limits most people from considering it.

@hotdixon - your personality can be altered by your experiences, but how you react to these experiences and the overall development of your personality is 100% controlled by your genetics.

And there's no real reason to cast down this technology so hastily. This is an expensive luxury for the rich (for now at least) who want to have more time with their beloved pets.

I believe the family will end up being dissapointed. They expect the dog to grow up the same as their previous dog, but this is by all means a new dog, yet with the same genes. It will have to be re-trained, and given the same amount of attention the original puppy had.

I agree with most comments here. They should have adopted a new puppy, giving it a chance like they had done with their deceased dog. The money they would have saved could have been donated to the various pet shelters in their area.

I for one am amazed by this technology, but I am not sure I agree with cloning anything/body you have/had emotions to. Sometimes, you have to let it go.

Enough with the mutts. We need to start mass cloning hot chicks.

Technology is amazing. Next are going to be humans.

What if cloning of a particular species was ever conducted on a mass scale? I could imagine a time when certain clones would inevitably become more sought after than a natural born of the same. What impact would this have on the available gene pool of that species as the genetic variations became less and less as the clones spread their DNA? We all know inbreeding increases genetic defects and often magnifies negative traits. Cloning on a large commercial scale could ultimately devastate the genetic reservoir of a particular species making it potentially more vulnerable to a particular disease or change in the environment. I'm just saying... Society needs to think this through very carefully as the consequences could have massive implications for the very survival of a particular species. Humans included.

Yes Yes Penix's idea is great. Mass clone hot chicks. There will be an over population of chicks.... :D all needing attention. They'll have to start being like most guy's and get it when you can. No longer are the guys the gas and girls the brakes. Roles will reverse and you'll be fighting off hot chicks, at the bar, on the street, you'll have to watch your back at night because gangs of beautiful women will roam the streets and night looking for you....

Uh, Bottman, be careful what you wish for. If hot chicks could be cloned that easily, then maybe they'll just stick with cloning, and the guys won't be getting any at all. And since they have all the egg cells, in a few generations there'd be no men at all.

No they wouldn't just stick with cloning wheres the fun in that. And if guys do start dying off, then for years they will be treated as gods or possibly just a sex toy either way I'm good. Also think of the future when its a rarity that a male is born, just think how luck that kid would be. Sign me up for that ride.

THIS IS VERY TERRIBLE... IF CLONE HUMAN FOR WAR.. AND IF NOT MISTAKEN THE LIFE OF CLONE STUFF ONLY LIFE APPROX 1/2 OF THE ORIGINAL ONE.. AND GROW FASTER AND LESS IMMUNITY TO THE VIRUS AND BATERIA AS ORIGINAL.

http://www.sciencewerk.com/clonewar/

I'd check that out, it's artwork dealing with the pros and cons of cloning. Pretty cool stuff.

With that money, they could have helped their local shelter, sponsor a couple of african girls, pay the tuition of a boy in Harlem and, yet buy another puppy, which they would grow to love. This is so selfish.

yes, yes, I agree...

clone more hot chix, absolutely!

I'm not sure I see the point in cloning animals. A genotypic twin doesn't mean that the dog will have any of the personality traits of the original. They would have been better off just getting Lancey a girlfriend and letting nature do her thang.

these pepole have way to much money!

This is so sad :(
All you ppl get is the looks out of this. Absolutly nuthin else and if this garbage makes you happy then i have no other comment