A dog with a labrador breed named 'Marley' was owned by couples Alicia and David Tschirhart from California. Marley died five years ago shortly after saving pregnant Alicia from a potential snake bite. Now, the couple receives their new dog named 'Ziggy'-- a dog that was scientifically cloned from their late dog Marley.
Couple cloned their late dog and replaced him with an identical one!
When is the right time to say goodbye to your pets once they died?
On a special report made by CNN, there seemed to be no definite time on when to do it-- especially if you have the capacity to clone them through raising a dog that looks exactly like your deceased pet.
This is what Californian couple Alicia and David did to their dog Marley when he died. According to the report, the couple went to a different emotional depression when their dog died. Marley was a memorable dog for the couple since he saved Alicia when she went hiking.
As narrated, Alicia tried to grab a stick on the woods when Marley darted out somewhere and started clawing on the ground wherein she was about to reach the stick.
"I just saw this really big stick, and so I was focused on grabbing that," Alicia said. "I didn't even see the snake until Marley started clawing."
They found out soon that Marley found a venomous snake hiding around the area of the stick and that's what he was clawing all the time.
After this, he was diagnosed with cancer and eventually died. The family felt remorse towards Marley and decided to clone him for their children to spend their time with late Marley.
"I just couldn't think of any better way to do that. To have, you know, their years growing up to have Ziggy around," David said.
How dog cloning works
Viagen Pets, a company that specializes in dog cloning, made the process possible for the couple. With the price of $50,000, the couple preserved their beloved pet's tissue biopsy and then used it to culture new living cells from the sample.
Viagen took one of the cells and used it to join together with an egg cell for an embryo to grow. After this, the embryo will be transferred to a surrogate mother.
Now, the couple enjoyed the company of their new dog named 'Ziggy' that said to "have the same personality, play the same, and favour the same toys" just like Marley.
Pokemon cloning is the only acceptable cloning-- Not for dogs or any pets!
This is not the only case of dog cloning. Back in 2018, even famous artist Barbara Streisand said that two of her dogs were already cloned from her past dogs.
Though it seemed to be a normal process going on over the years, the Humane Society of the United States criticized the said practice.
"Cloning experiments reflect a spirit common to all systematic forms of cruelty to animals," the Humane Society of the United States said on its website. "They treat animals as commodities alone, instead of as living individuals with needs and natures of their own."
PETA also mentioned that adopting pets from animal shelters are more acceptable rather than cloning their past pets.
"When you consider that millions of equally personable dogs are euthanized in animal shelters every year for lack of a home, cloning is all the more indefensible," PETA said in a 2018 post on its website.
