Kanine Kapers Dog Blog

Never a huge fan of Schwarzenegger movies but you may remember “The Sixth Day” a film released in 2000 and set in 2020. Arnold stumbles into a clone of himself uncovers conspiracy and saves the planet - honest that was the plot.

Anyway Arnold ’s family pet had passed away so he checked out the local commercial cloning service

Just bring your dying pet to “Re-Pet” and have him cloned so that he can continue to live with you.

From BBC News Friday 15th Feb 2008

A South Korean company says it has taken its first order for the cloning of a pet dog. A woman from the United States wants her dead pitbull terrier - called Booger - re-created.

RNL Bio is charging the woman, from California, $150,000 (£76,000) to clone the pitbull using tissue extracted from its ear before it died.

The work will be carried out by a team from Seoul National University, where the first dog was cloned in 2005.

The firm is expecting hundreds more orders for pets over the next few years and also plans to clone dogs trained to sniff out bombs or drugs.

The thin edge of the wedge?

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