You have showered your pet with the chosen of luxuries…posh pet mansion, luxurious designer accessories, even a pet treadmill to keep him active, but still want to pamper him some more? Then, get your dog a £60,000 clone! A U.S Biotech firm auctions the chance to have your pet copied. Five very rich dog owners are already blessed with this one-of-a-kind chance to have their beloved pet clones. DailyMail reports, “To clone the dogs, cells were taken from the original animal and inserted into the nucleus of an egg, which is then transferred into a donor animal.” Now they’re making the technology available on a commercial basis and next month will open a global online auction to clone five dogs. “But the process isn’t cheap and Mr Hawthorne says opening bids will start at £50,000. It could easily end up being price comparable to a luxury car, or a vacation house,” he said. Mr Hawthorne formerly ran Genetic Savings & Clone, which offered to clone pet cats for £31,740 but the firm folded in 2006 because few people were willing to pay so much. Tell us what do you think about pet cloning?
