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Cloning Pets<br />
By: Ali Guggenheim / Psychic Phenomenon<br />
Have you ever wished your pet could live<br />
for your entire lifetime? Apparently now<br />
it can happen, since cloning is no longer just a<br />
laboratory experiment.<br />
Today there are numbers of cloning companies that are offering to<br />
make that dream come true. Claiming that “loving your pet doesn’t<br />
have to be a once in a lifetime experience” they can make it happen<br />
twice - or even more.<br />
In <strong>18</strong>85 Hans Dreisch performed the first successful cloning<br />
experiment with a sea urchin. The cloning process is where new life is<br />
created by copying the cell data of a living (or dead) host.<br />
The gathered cell data is then implanted into an embryo, which<br />
undergoes a normal development cycle. Once born, it becomes a nearly<br />
identical physical copy of the implanted cell data and is considered<br />
both fatherless and motherless.<br />
Dolly the Sheep was the first “successful” adult somatic cell nuclear<br />
transfer cloning process. Born February 1996 with an <strong>11</strong>-12 year life<br />
expectancy Dolly was euthanized after only 6.5 years due to severe<br />
arthritis and lung disease which was circulating in her flock.<br />
To this day it is unknown whether cloning had anything to do with<br />
her demise, though it triggered an international controversy that is still<br />
going on.<br />
Although cloning<br />
may produce an<br />
identical physical<br />
twin, the clone is<br />
still a much younger<br />
independent<br />
animal. There<br />
may be similarities<br />
between the two, yet<br />
the clone will never<br />
inherit the personality or “very essence” of your beloved pet.<br />
Nor are there any guarantees that the clone will embody the same<br />
temperament, quirks, behaviors, etc. In addition, we have yet to address<br />
the moral problems, potential health issues, mistakes, mutations,<br />
suffering - and more.<br />
Each of us has to decide for ourselves. Do we do as Barbara Streisand<br />
did, when she paid $100,000 to have two puppies cloned from<br />
Samantha, her 14 year old dog that died recently?<br />
Or do we choose to experience a once in a lifetime love-fest with<br />
our pets and perhaps give other residents of our over-populated animal<br />
world a chance at a loving life too?<br />
To learn more about Ali, spiritual consultations, coaching, classes,<br />
workshops, and readings, call, give her a call: 702/373-9081.<br />
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