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The real reasons you shouldn’t clone your dog

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    skybrian
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    From the article:

    From the article:

    Even not counting the original egg donor and surrogate, the cloning process still requires numerous dogs to produce a single clone. Consider: Many cloned pregnancies don’t take hold in the uterus or die shortly after birth, as was the case with Snuppy’s twin. Snuppy and his twin were two of only three pregnancies that resulted from more than 1,000 embryos implanted into 123 surrogates.

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    1. knocklessmonster
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      That was worse than I expected. I thought it was about attachment, not this amount of suffering on other dogs reduced to breeding vessels. I'd just buy another and hire a trainer if I had that...

      That was worse than I expected. I thought it was about attachment, not this amount of suffering on other dogs reduced to breeding vessels.

      I'd just buy another and hire a trainer if I had that kind of money.

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