I'm not so much against cloning animals and the dog sounds like he was amazing so I can understand why she would want him back but I couldn't help thinking that there are so many animals in shelters that desperately need homes that cloning a pet just feels wrong.
"You think you know, what you are, what's to come--You haven't even begun." BtVS
I'm so tired of people expecting martyrdom of dog lovers.
There are tens of thousands of orphaned, as well as starving and ill, children in the world, but no one says to new parents, or a pregnant woman, "Why didn't you save a human life by adopting?" Should it be their moral obligation to do so?
Actually, I begrudge no one their desire and right to have their own biological children, and as many as they care to. By the same token, I regularly give hundreds of dollars to animal charities, and if I want to buy a specific breed of puppy from a responsible breeder to raise myself, so as to know what I'm "getting," I'll do so without compunction.
If I could afford it, I would have at least considered cloning one or more of my dogs years ago!
It's like recycling in a way. Who wouldn't want the nice new shiny pair of sneakers? But I have more RESPECT for the person that chooses the lesser of the two options.
shareShe should've cloned Kirk! Problem solved. ;)
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