Comments on: Got a Dead Dog? Clone It!

By: lionheart

lionheart — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:05:47 +0000

this is creepy.

By: watermelonpunch

watermelonpunch — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:22:45 +0000

I don't think it's the science that is lost on this woman. I think it's the humanity that's lost on this woman. She's been accused of plotting crimes with and corrupting a minor. She's accused of lying, rudeness, making threats, mistreating animals, and kidnapping & raping someone and later stalking him across 2 continents. Masquerading as a deaf mime, a Hollywood writer, a nun, and a brunette, all while fleeing justice as a fugitive from the law. Her asserted idea that she was "doing something good" by cloning puppies (as if it's akin to Mother Teresa caring for the poor & ill), and in her asserted idea that she could "bring Booger back" by cloning, definitely betrays her extremely superficial & meaningless understanding of human emotion & attachment to other people & to pets. She likely sees pets as objects, so why shouldn't one be just the same as another if they're from "the same mold"? She has a history of not caring about PEOPLE and their rights as individuals, why would she care about the individuality of a dog?

By: Mayor of Kentonville

Mayor of Kentonville — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:28:48 +0000

Steven King just started another 1000 page opus

By: Homer J. Simpson

Homer J. Simpson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:55:46 +0000

Just saw this over at BoingBoing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/08/dog-cloner-suspected.html

Curiouser and curiouser...

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:59:10 +0000

Only a person so unobservant that they'd never noticed their pet's personality would want to do this. People (well... smart people) wouldn't clone a dead child and expect the clone to have the same personality. And yet some people seem to think that animals have so little personality that one dog is as good as the next.

What a waste of knowledge, resources, and money.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:56:09 +0000

thank you JC, seriously.

By: Warenwirtschaft

Warenwirtschaft — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:38:40 +0000

How could people clone dogs, or what else? I think that's not okay. What would you think or even do if you hear, that you've been cloned? Would you really accept it? I think not. Animals can't resist to not be cloned, and that's the way why it's easy to clone a dog, but aren't there not enough dogs in the world, waiting for a home in a shelter?

By: JC

JC — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:51:57 +0000

The acceptance of nature is cheaper.

By: Homer J. Simpson

Homer J. Simpson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:44:33 +0000

Wouldn't these cloned dogs probably have something wrong with them sort of like Dolly the sheep, who, IIRC, lived only about half of the normal lifespan of a sheep?

By: Jill Harness

Jill Harness — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:10:15 +0000

It's not going to have the same personality or anything, so what's the point. My dog is my favorite little guy ever. But if he died, a dog that looked exactly like him and yet, wasn't him...that would break my heart whenever I looked at him.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:08:37 +0000

But, come on. Haven't we all wanted to kidnap one of those door-to-door religious types? I'm thinking lawn statues...

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:50:22 +0000

Whoa. way to make the headlines. again. This woman's nuts!

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:47:30 +0000

This is stupid. Millions of animals are in shelters waiting for homes...
Yes, the dog will be biologically the same as her previous dog, but it won't have the same personality.
This one may not want to save her life.

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:17:24 +0000

if they don't make it so that you HAVE to neuter these dogs, we're gonna be in big trouble eventually with so much of the same genetics running around
plus, what in the world do they do with the other identical puppies in that litter?
god, i'm usually not with these kinds of things, but i'm so against this, it's just taking things too far

By: bean

bean — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:11:20 +0000

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24144138-2703,00.ht ml

Some sites are IDing this women as a famous sex-criminal...

By: Faye Doneaway

Faye Doneaway — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:40:33 +0000

The lady says Booger was “a little stray dog I found by the side of the road." Given the influence of environment in how a dog turns out, are these pampered pups likely to have the same temperament as dad? If she is attacked by another dog she'd better hope so...

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:37:46 +0000

Meanwhile, it turns out this woman has been on the run from the law on a kidnapping charge from the Uk 30 years ago.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24144138-2703,00.ht ml

By: ted

ted — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:31 +0000

That lady wouldn't have adopted a homeless puppy in a shelter, anyways.
It's her money - let her waste it as she sees fit.

By: misshaight

misshaight — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:03:50 +0000

Meanwhile, a homeless puppy waits for a home in a shelter somewhere...