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	Pet cloning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pet cloning is the commercial cloning of a pet animal.
		Cloning creates only a genetic copy of an animal; it does not guarantee an identical personality, which may be formed more by life experiences than genetics.
		This example of commercial cloning was decried by the Humane Society and other animal welfare groups, saying that the $50,000 cost of producing Little Nicky could have paid for the vaccination and care of a large number of currently homeless cats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pet_cloning (416 words)

	HSUS Statement on the Cloning of Pets
		Given the current pet overpopulation problem, which costs millions of animals their lives and millions in public tax dollars each year, the cloning of pets has no social value and in fact may lead to increased animal suffering.
		Cloning is an imperfect science and potentially dangerous for the animals involved, including the clone.
		In fact, a pet's personality, the specific trait that most owners would like to preserve and the attribute that most endears a companion animal to his family, is the trait least likely to be replicated by cloning.
	www.hsus.org /ace/13318 (281 words)

	Pet Cloning, animal cloning, cloning pets, dog cloning, cat cloning, foreverpet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The scientists at ForeverPet realize that the technology is in place to make the cloning of pets and other animals a routine procedure in the next few years.
		Depending on the disposition of the pet, the veterinarian may wish to sedate your animal and administer a local anesthetic.
		Cloned animals are genetically identical to the original animal.
	www.foreverpet.com /faq.html (1079 words)

	FuturePundit: Californian Legislator Fearing Franken-Kitty Wants To Ban Pet Cloning
		Cloning hurts animals, exploits grieving pet owners and is unnecessary in a state that kills more than a million unwanted dogs and cats each year, said Assemblyman Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys), whose bill, AB 1428, would make it illegal to sell cloned pets in California.
		Apparently, this was probably the reason the famous cloned sheep "Dolly" died at a young age, because it was intrinsically as old as its "parent" at the time she was born, as far as cell division is concerned.
		Therefore, if the cloned animals (or humans) are allowed to have further offspring from regular animals (or humans that were not cloned), then the new generation might have some very unexpected health complications, not to mention possible degenerations that cannot be predicted or controlled.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002751.html (2823 words)

	Animal Welfare and Pet Cloning Ethics
		Cloned primates and dogs have so far proved impossible, but PPL Therapeutics have produced quite a lot of cloned pigs and thus far pigs show almost none of the problems seen in sheep or cattle.
		The company GSC which cloned the cat Cc are pursuing genetic analysis of the cloned embryo at the blastocyst stage to check whether there are defects against a normal animal.
		Another might be if cloning enabled a greater understanding and treatment of serious animal diseases, or perhaps to save an endangered species, although this seems unlikely to be a practicable on the scale that would be needed.
	www.srtp.org.uk /clonin84.htm (1145 words)

	Fool.com: Cloning Fluffy [Commentary] January 4, 2005
		Cloning is a multi-step process that begins with collecting cells from the animal that is to be cloned, the donor animal.
		Since the clone has the exact same genetic makeup as the donor animal from which the cells are taken, the process has essentially created an identical twin.
		With 143 million pets in the U.S. alone, or about one for every two people in the country, the market is enormous, especially when you consider how attached to their pets people can get.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05010402.htm (958 words)

	Pet cloning raises concerns for some
		Cloning an 8-year-old dog would mean the new dog, while physically a baby, would have 8-year-old DNA.
		In addition, from a breeding and showing standpoint, cloning would be very hard to regulate, and any successes would be short-lived due to changes in styles and standards deemed necessary for winning breeds, he said.
		Genetic Savings and Clone has not released Julie’s last name but reports the airline industry employee is enamored with her new pet.
	www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2004/December_04/12232004_01.asp (583 words)

	Science News : Animal welfare bid to control pet cloning industry, ( Kerala news, India News,Us,UK,Kerala Shopping,Onam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The clones - which have sold for $50,000 each - are genetic duplicates of customers’ deceased pets and represent the leading edge of a new commercial sector that could eventually reap billions of dollars for corporate cloners.
		"Pet cloning companies offer false hope of never having to let go of a pet and are causing harm to animals in the process," the AAVS concluded in a report, Pet Cloning: Separating Facts From Fluff.
		Clones tend to be ordered by people who are grieving the loss of a pet and may have unrealistic expectations of their clones.
	www.keralanext.com /news/index.asp?id=121957 (696 words)

	Roslin Institute, Edinburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		cloning involves collection of large numbers of eggs from donor animals and the implantation of cloned embryos in a substantial number of surrogate mothers.
		At present cloning is inefficient and while many clones are apparently normal, a substantial number of cloned animals die late in pregnancy or soon after birth (see cloning for summary statistics).
		Given that the supposed benefit of cloning a pet is an illusion and the harms to the other animals involved would be real, there seems to us no ethical justification for proceeding with this particular application of cloning.
	www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk /news/articles/155.html (309 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| features Pet cloning goes commercial
		US pet owners are being offered a second lease on life for their dying cats by a firm that is offering to clone the animals for about $50 000 per "copy cat".
		"Cloning is a very controversial issue," he said.
		Animal rights lobbyists also slam pet cloning as cruel and wasteful, when 17 million US animals are put down in shelters each year because no homes can be found for them.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /features/312470.htm (866 words)

	Pet-Clone Sales Spur Call for Ban
		Summary The first two cloned kittens have been delivered in the U.S., and dogs are next—but animal-rights activists are calling for state and federal regulations.
		The company began cloning cats last February for owners who were willing to plunk down U.S. The price since then has dropped to $32,000.
		Given that only a small number of cloned cats have been born in recent years, she said, there is no long-term data to demonstrate that they will live average, healthy life spans.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/02/0223_050223_pet_cloning.html (511 words)

	Pet Clones Spur Call For Limits (washingtonpost.com)
		The clones -- which have sold for $50,000 each -- are genetic duplicates of customers' deceased pets and represent the leading edge of an emerging commercial sector that advocates predict could eventually reap billions of dollars for corporate cloners.
		Clones tend to be ordered by people who are grieving the loss of a much-loved pet and who may have unrealistically high expectations of their clones.
		"Pet cloning serves no good purpose, does harm to animals and should be banned," said Richard Hayes, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a public affairs organization based in Oakland.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30589-2005Feb16.html (918 words)

	Pet cloning Information
		Pet Cloning are great for when you're looking to get better at pet cloning for selfish purposes.
		In its response to AAVS' petition to regulate pet cloning as a research activity covered by the Animal...
		Pet Cloning Under Scrutiny; New Report Questions Science, Animal Welfare, Lack of Oversight, Ethics and Consumer Fraud of Pet Cloning Industry...
	pet.2greatsite2.info /pet-rats/pet-cloning.html (275 words)

	The DNA Files - Learn More - Genes & Cloning
		Cloned early-stage human embryos — and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis — now put therapeutic cloning within reach.
		This set of essays on the implications of human cloning includes Ian Wilmut's original research paper announcing the creation of Dolly the cloned sheep, and discussions of the ethical issues, as well as four fictional excursions.
		Human cloning is the topic of this debate between two respected ethicists.
	www.dnafiles.org /resources/res08.html (1057 words)

	Company claims it’s cloning pet cats - Pet Health - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Research published in the journal Nature cited DNA evidence that the kitten was indeed a clone, but her coloring and disposition were different from those of her genetic mother.
		The traditional nuclear transfer method of cloning involves taking the nucleus from a cell of the animal to be cloned, putting it into an egg cell that has had its own nucleus removed, and then triggering this egg into growing as if it had been fertilized.
		It involves dissolving the outside of the nucleus of the cell to be cloned and removing certain regulatory proteins from the chromosomes, which carry the genes, and the proteins around the chromosomes.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5612603 (713 words)

	Straight out of the Movies: At least one pet has been cloned in the last year. Now pet cloning is being banned. ...
		But at the dawn of this breakthrough, pet cloning is coming to an end.
		If pet cloning becomes available nationwide, many lawmakers and animal activists fear that people will look to pet cloning in order to resurrect some former beloved pet instead of heading to their local animal shelter to adopt an animal in need of a good home.
		Instead, the intention is to ban the exploitation of innocent, vulnerable Americans who may have lost a beloved pet and would fall victim to spending $50,000 for a cat, especially one that may not hold any similar characteristics to the original specimen at all.
	www.legalzoom.com /articles/article_content/article13312.html (518 words)

	Preserve Your Pet With Cloning -- Perpetuate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Once animal cloning becomes a reality, you may be able to use the preserved DNA to clone your very special pet.
		The possibility of cloning a valued pet provides its owner with a degree of hope.
		Dairy producers are cloning elite dairy cows and bulls to increase the supply of superior genetics.
	www.perpetuate.net (148 words)

	MyWestTexas.com - Editorial & Opinion - 08/09/2005 - Shanna Sissom on Pet cloning: 'Copy cats' are now available ...
		While human cloning is undoubtedly a controversial moral issue, and for very good reason, cloning the animal kingdom is emerging as a business enterprise catering to pet lovers.
		Sure, it apparently makes a lot of grieving pet owners very happy to have a part of their feline in a clone, but the whole thing is eerie to me.
		As was the case with the beautiful blonde that cloned her cat last year, that definitely seems to be the case.
	www.mywesttexas.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15001467&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475590&rfi=6 (730 words)

	Pet lovers have cloning labs seeing double - 07/19/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With thousands of pet owners wanting in on the Missyplicity project, Westhusin and his colleagues spun off Genetic Savings, which cryogenically preserves cells that a veterinarian takes from a pet who has grown older or who is at or near death.
		In a nation where the 53 million households with pets outnumbers the 35 million with children at home, experts say it's not surprising that some well-heeled pet owners want to follow the lead of Missy's "human mother," as the dog's owner calls herself on Missyplicity's Internet site, www.missyplicity.com.
		Copycats of family pets reproduced through cloning should help scientists who are trying to save endangered animals as well.
	www.detnews.com /2000/technology/0007/19/a08-93133.htm (685 words)

	CLONING & STEM CELLS HOME PAGE
		A fuller discussion appears in chapters on cloning in "Human Cloning - the Religious Aspects" (Westminster John Knox 1997) and "Beyond Cloning" (2001, Trinity Press), and the report Cloning Animals and Humans of the European Ecumenical Commission for Church and Society, to which SRT was the main contributor.
		The SRT Project wrote a special Report on Cloning to the Church of Scotland's 1997 General Assembly which was passed on May 22 by the church's highest body.
		In a Press Release on Cloning Patents, SRT calls on these companies who are licensed to use Roslin's cloning patent to exercise social responsibility over how they use their patent rights.
	www.srtp.org.uk /cloning.shtml (3485 words)

	NoPetCloning.org
		The announcement by Korean scientists of the first-ever cloning of a dog is bad news for dogs, and further demonstrates the significant animal welfare problems associated with cloning.
		In its response to AAVS’ petition to regulate pet cloning as a research activity covered by the Animal Welfare Act, USDA has characterized the industry differently, as unregulated “production.” However, the federal agency reserved the right to make future determinations on a “case-by-case” basis and indicated willingness to consider the issue further.
		AAVS remains gravely concerned because USDA’s failure means that the pet cloning industry will continue to operate without any oversight of their animal experimentation procedures.
	www.nopetcloning.org (186 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| First pet clone is a cat
		The work is described in the scientific journal Nature and is the first time anyone has cloned a pet.
		CopyCat, or Cc for short, is a copy of her genetic mother, not of the tabby surrogate cat that actually gave birth to her.
		According to the Wall Street Journal, the cloning experiments were funded by an 81-year-old financier called John Sperling, who wants to charge wealthy pet owners to clone their animals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1820749.stm (369 words)

	Pet-cloning company makes a landmark sale - Science - MSNBC.com
		SAN FRANCISCO - The first cloned-to-order pet sold in the United States is named Little Nicky, a 9-week-old kitten delivered to a Texas woman saddened by the loss of a cat she had owned for 17 years.
		Commercial interests already are cloning prized cattle for about $20,000 each, and scientists have cloned mice, rabbits, goats, pigs, horses — and even the endangered banteng, a wild bull that is found mostly in Indonesia.
		Scientists also warn that cloned animals suffer from more health problems than their traditionally bred peers and that cloning is still a very inexact science.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6747736 (865 words)

	Cat Cloning is Wrong-Headed States The Humane Society of the United States
		The HSUS attempts to foster close bonds between people and their pets since research demonstrates that a break in this bond is the leading cause of pet overpopulation, which leads to the unnecessary deaths of millions of animals each year.
		"The Humane Society of the United States opposes pet cloning because it is dangerous for the animals involved, it serves no compelling social purpose, and it threatens to add to the pet overpopulation problem.
		"Cloning animals strips away the altruistic component behind pet-keeping and reduces the experience to one of selfishness.
	www.hsus.org /ace/13214 (369 words)

	Cloning Myths
		You remember that cloning is an alternative way to create an embryo, not a full-grown individual.
		You can't bear the thought of living without her, so you contact a biotechnology company that advertises pet cloning services.
		For a fee, this company will clone Frank using DNA from a sample of her somatic cells.
	gslc.genetics.utah.edu /units/cloning/cloningmyths (698 words)

	ForeverPet Launches First Low Cost Pre-Cloning Service for Pet Owners
		Now that a cat clone is a reality and research on dog cloning continues, more and more pet owners have expressed an interest in one day cloning their beloved companions.
		Pet cloning could actually reduce the number of unwanted animals given that an owner might feel happier having their pet neutered if they knew he or she could be cloned.
		Having launched commercial horse cloning services to worldwide clients, the company is also managing a special project, the GENETICAS ARK, which aims to prevent the extinction of the many species that are in danger of disappearing from our planet.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2003/12/emw92156.php (1141 words)

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