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Should Pets Be Cloned?
| 2012 | | Macquarie University
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[You decide ESSAY: `should pets be cloned? `] | Tutor` Name: Prof. Helena NEVALAINEN Tutorial Name: CBMS880- Medical and Molecular Biotechnology |

Animal cloning is getting popular by scientists day by day after the success of the sheep Dolly which was the first animal clone in the world. Dolly was created effectively by Roslin Instute scientist in Edinburgh (TechNyou) and she was euthanized when she was six year old due to a virus-induced lung tumour (Mott M., 2004). Even though the relevant scientists report that there is no evidence that cloning might be the cause of the disease of Dolly (Mott M., 2004), most of the scientists agree that cloning animals cannot be excellent with the current technology. They further state that the technology must be more advanced for having perfect clones. However, this warning does not stop people who want to clone their pets to not to lose them. There are lots of companies like Genetic Saving and Clone, Lazarus and PerPETuate (Masterson U. O., 2012) which stock the DNA of the pets to clone them if pet owners offer a huge amount of money. It seems like that cats can have more than 9 lives now but cloning is not that simple issue it has its pros and cons. These pros and cons must be considered carefully before deciding the pets should be cloned or not.

Cloning animals is a new and expensive procedure and could be costing thousands of dollars (Goldman R., 2009). When the pet owners put such amount of money to such procedures they will have high expectations of the cloned animal. After all following the procedure, the pet owners are coming face to face with a problem that there is an animal which is a copy of their pet but it does not behave like it (Goldman R., 2009). Some people who cloned their pets think that cloning could be a solution of having the same best friend with the matching memories and learned behaviours for their entire life. However,



References: 1) Hansen B., 2008, `Cloning Pets`, Genome British Columbia, Vancouver, CA <http://www.genomebc.ca/education/articles/cloning-pets/> 2) American Anti-Vivisection Society, 2005, `Pet Cloning: Separating Facts from Fluff`, Jenkintown, PA, USA <http://www.aavs.org/atf/cf/%7B8989C292-EF46-4EEC-94D8-43EAA9D98B7B%7D/SeparatingFactsfromFluff.pdf> 3) Masterson U. O., 2012, `Cloning pets: In search of Fluffy 2.0`, MSNBC, NYC, USA <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076926/ns/health-special_reports/t/cloning-pets-search-fluffy/#.UHXzKhWoxoc> 4) The Telegraph, 2008, `Scientists clone five puppies from dead pet for £25,000`, <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/2506017/Scientists-clone-five-puppies-from-dead-pet-for-25000.html> 5) TechNyou, `Cloning Animals`, TechNyou science education resources, <http://education.technyou.edu.au/view/101/139/cloning-animals> 6) Goldman R., 2009, `Cloned Pets: Looks Can Be Deceiving`, abc News, <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/story?id=6762235&page=1#.UHVMGhWoxoc> 7) Mott M., 2004, `Cat Cloning Offered to Pet Owners`, National Geographic News, <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0324_040324_catclones.html> 8) Singer E., 2009, `The Dark Side of Pet Cloning`, Technology Review (pub.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan, <http://www.technologyreview.com/view/411834/the-dark-side-of-pet-cloning/> 9) Can Vet J., 2003, `What of Animal Cloning? `, 44(4): 271–272, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC372227/> 10) Konigsberg E., 2008, `Beloved Pets Everlasting? `, The New York Times, Fairfax, CA, USA <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01clones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>

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