Companies that offer to clone pets profit off of distraught pet lovers by falsely promising a replica of a beloved pet.
With millions of deserving dogs and cats in need of a home, pet cloning is completely unnecessary," said Vicki Katrinak, the animal research issues program manager at the society. Originally published by natgeo. Sooam Biotech could not be reached at the time of this article's publication and ViaGen declined to comment.
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We have produced thousands of happy, healthy cloned cows and hundreds of cloned horses, among other animals. The same practices and expertise that underlie these successes are now being brought to dog cloning through ViaGen Pets.
Our vision at ViaGen Pets is to continue to develop and grow the science so that dog cloning is available to all dog owners. We know that many dog owners have questions about cloning dogs. A cloned dog is simply a genetic twin of your dog, born at a later date. The cloned twin will share many of the key attributes of your current dog, often including intelligence, temperament and appearance.
The genetic identity of cloned dogs is identical to the original dogs. Dog cloning does not involve any changes to the genes of your dog. Cloned dogs live full, healthy and happy lives and are no more susceptible to health problems than any other dogs. Your veterinarian will collect a small tissue sample from your dog. This process is a minor procedure. But many wealthy pet owners are willing to shill out for these rarefied services.
No doubt the most famous is Barbara Streisand. Last month, the singer and filmmaker shocked the Internet when she told Variety that two of her three dogs, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlet, had been cloned from cells taken from the mouth and stomach of her fluffy, white, recently deceased Coton de Tulear, Samantha. Samantha, or Sammie, had passed away the previous May.
As Streisand wrote a few days later, in an op-ed in the New York Times :. I was so devastated by the loss of my dear Samantha, after 14 years together, that I just wanted to keep her with me in some way. A friend had cloned his beloved dog, and I was very impressed with that dog.
The average American dog lives between 7 and 15 years. With that perspective, the price may seem more reasonable. Unfortunately, you have to overlook a huge amount about the process—to say nothing about what cloning actually is—to be satisfied with the results.
The process of cloning is simple enough. Next, scientists extract unfertilized eggs from another, unrelated dog, removing them from its fallopian tubes. This process strips the eggs of the genetic material that they contain, making the egg cell essentially a blank slate for scientists to fill with DNA of their choosing. Scientists can also achieve a similar effect with a targeted blast of ultraviolet light, which destroys the genetic material.
Unlike an unfertilized egg, which has half of the necessary genetic information to make a new life—the other half is in the sperm cell—you already have a full set of genetic information, just as you would in a viable embryo.
The electrical burst also jumpstarts cell division. After a few days, assuming that the process successfully takes hold, the lab can then surgically implant the cells into yet another animal: a surrogate dog mother. Often, surrogates then go on to carry other cloned pregnancies.
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