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That’s what the first successful cloning of a dog is being called; the Booger project.  Booger was the cloned dog’s name.  Five cloned puppies were recently born at a lab in
South Korea – making them the first commercially cloned pets. 

I lost a great four legged love last year.  If someone gave me the opportunity to have ‘him’ again, I think I’d jump at the chance.  But since this is the ‘Booger’ project and not the ‘Cowboy’ project, I have my reservations.  I have worries of health problems enhanced from the cloning process.  I have concerns that the new ‘Boogers’ will somehow be lifeless look-a-likes of the original Booger.   

This all seems too much like a cheap science fiction movie gone bad.  The cloned ‘Boogers’ grow up to ‘booger up’ the world.  I guess it just boils down to something I don’t quite understand and that we don’t know enough about…yet.  While the Korean lab claims it has no plans to go into the pet cloning business, my guess is that regardless of price pet owners will be lining up to have a copy of a lost love.   

This is not for me.  Someday I’ll get another Border Collie like Cowboy; but it won’t be a clone of Cowboy.  Cowboy was unique – he could not be replicated in any lab.  And the next dog I get will be unique as well; and will probably steal my heart as well too.  No lab can clone love. 

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