The £60,000 Puppy.

[marshman 7,758]

Program on C4 next week about people cloning there dogs. And I thought people were daft for paying a lot of money to pedlars for pups lol.

[Tiercel 6,986]

http://innovation.uk.msn.com/personal/channel-4-runs-dog-cloning-competition.

 

Now some who could afford it can get their super dogs cloned and they will live forever. Wonder who would be up for it?

 

TC

Edited April 4, 2014 by tiercel

[baw 4,360]

I thought for a minute KC had bred his bitch to Lucas

[marshman 7,758]

I thought for a minute KC had bred his bitch to Lucas

If some unscrupulous person could clone them dogs and make a few quid of the pups for years to come?. Imagine someone having a Toby/Hoover or a Smithy clone or whatever named dog they wanted ?

[ginga john 268]

I saw the title and thought you'd finally shelled out for a pup :laugh:

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Surely part of being into working dogs is the skill of breeding a good line, and entering the pups, well I guess times change, but I dont think many will go down the route of cloning, no matter how good the individual dog.

[marshman 7,758]

I saw the title and thought you'd finally shelled out for a pup :laugh:

you thought I had shelled for a pup .... You know better than that ?

[marshman 7,758]

Surely part of being into working dogs is the skill of breeding a good line, and entering the pups, well I guess times change, but I dont think many will go down the route of cloning, no matter how good the individual dog.

I agree plus £60,000 would be to much for most normal working men's pockets.

[South hams hunter 8,924]

Well clone or not raising it would make a lot of difference. Look at pups from the same litter

[neems 2,406]

Its a competition between pet dogs.

 

you'd think they'd use an exceptional guide dog,police dog or herding dog etc

Something actually worth breeding from.

[Tiercel 6,986]

Its a competition between pet dogs.

 

you'd think they'd use an exceptional guide dog,police dog or herding dog etc

Something actually worth breeding from.

They are cloning police dogs and have been for a while.

 

Cut and paste from the link I put up.

 

Since then Hwang claims to have successfully cloned at least 400 canines from around the world. Sooam Biotech offers dog cloning commercially, and clones police dogs for the South Korean government, as well as pets for rich owners (mostly from the US).

 

The name given to the cloned Korean working dogs is Toppy, which stands for Tomorrow's Puppy. Cloning police dogs makes more sense than you’d think. Only 10-15% of dogs are genetically predisposed to being effective detection dogs, so the chances of a Toppy being successfully trained are much higher than those of dogs bred naturally.

 

TC

Edited April 5, 2014 by tiercel