Would you consider cloning your pet?

[True Dough]

A woman in British Columbia, Canada, has done exactly that. She has two kittens that are a clone of her now dead cat. You can read about it at the link below, if you want more details.

[link:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-cloned-cats-1.7146050|

Does the idea appeal to you?

[question everything]

1. She will live to regret. The animals that we love are the result of nature and nurture

They may look like the dead one but their behavior and reaction would be different.

[MiniMe]

4. Totally agree with you.

It is tempting, but it will never be the same

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. No. That's totally dumb.

Cloning your pet will not bring that pet back.

Identical twins can be considered clones, but they are still two separate, totally individual humans.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Nope.

One life with me is enough.

[3catwoman3]

5. No. We almost always honor a departed cat by choosing...

...a successor, usually within a few weeks. We never call them replacements..

[JoseBalow]

6. No, there are too many animals currently in need of good homes

Adopt, don't clone

[RockRaven]

7. Absolutely not.

There's no good reason to do that, and many good reasons not to.

[debm55]

8. No

[Elessar Zappa]

9. Probably not but I don't consider it unethical or anything like that.

If she wants a clone of her previous pet, that’s fine, she’s just needs to understand it won’t be the exact same, it’ll have its own personality.

[Niagara]

10. Im going to say no.

For myself, I don't want anymore furry family members. I could be still grieving from the last loss, so please keep this in mind as my response is being read.


The only time that they broke my heart is when I had to have two of them euthanized due to two separate types of cancer and the other one euthanized at the end of life at 19 years old.


I'm currently relieved about not having ridiculous veterinary bills piled on me. I could imagine that cloned pets would be significantly higher in the veterinary bills department as well.


I also don't have an extra 25 to 50k to have any pet cloned. If I had that extra 25 to 50k, I would donate it to a pet rescue to help get the unhoused into quality homes.


😺😽🐶🐕

[True Dough]

12. I like that response!

Except the cancer and euthanization part. Sorry to hear that, Nigara. But donating the equivalent money to a pet rescue is a much better use of funds, IMO.

[Niagara]

13. Thank you, True Dough.

I still donate to pet rescue's ... only the amount isn't in the thousands lol.

[Emile]

11. Nope

Probably cost way too much money anyways.

[Fla Dem]

14. Don't clone, rescue. So many cats and dogs waiting for a good home.

I also even feel that way about breeder animals. Are bred cats/dogs better than a rescued cat or dog? There's no guarantee they'll be smarter, more playful, healthier than a rescue. So why, unless you want a show animal.

[limbicnuminousity]

15. Only if I could engineer it

to have growing red eyes and correct any heritable health issues.

[intheflow]

16. I have considered it.

Not in a real sense, mostly for economic reasons, but I had a dog that was my life and savior for over a decade. As my son put it, Bear was my longest relationship outside of direct (human) family members. He was a fabulous dog who loved and was loved by everyone, every animal and person he ever met. My biggest complaint about him was that I couldn't ever grow sunflowers or raspberries in my fenced backyard because he loved to eat them both.

I understand (and understood as I pondered this at his passing some 6 years ago) that the dog I would get would not be Bear, who was shaped into this loving creature by having survived Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps he realized how precious life is after coming through that trauma. A cloned puppy wouldn't have those experiences, of being scared in a storm and scared in the Humane Society, and then being adopted and traveling the country with me. But he was such a very handsome good boi and surely some of his temperament must have been innate. The cloned pup wouldn't be Bear, but had a good chance to become as equally wonderful a dog in his own right.

I still probably wouldn't have done it, though, even if I'd had the money. I've read too many books and watched too many movies about evil clones.

[True Dough]

17. Lovely anecdote, intheflow

Sounds like Bear was a real friend, even if he chomped down your raspberries and sunflower seeds.

Our boy Duke (German shepherd/mastiff) also loves raspberries. Cherry tomatoes are a close second. He's a garden raider!