If, for many years, your beloved pet died, what kind of way would you choose to miss it? In addition to conventional methods such as cremation and burial, many new ways have emerged over the years with the change in the concept of pet owners. For example, some people will leave the last image for their pets, and some people will make souvenirs of the hair left by their pets. And there are also people who are more advanced, they choose to use biotechnology to make the pet return by "backing up life".
For Yue Yue, who lives in Yangpu, this is not the first time to see "nini", but "nini" has returned. This 2-month-old puppy, which has not yet changed its hair, has the same name as the dog that Yue Yue's family just died in October last year, and the genes are exactly the same. It is a dog born through biological gene replication technology, which is what we commonly call "clone dog".
Yue Yue said that since the adoption of 2-year-old Nini, she has lived in this family for a total of 17 years and has long been a member of the family. But compared to people, the life of a dog is too short. In 2017, watching Nini grow older and her physical condition deteriorate every day, she will one day leave this matter and become a stone in Yue Yue's heart. Until I saw foreign reports that I could clone cute pets.
In August 2018, "Nini" suddenly became seriously ill, the doctor did not recommend any more treatment, Yue Yue called the company, let them save the somatic cells of "Nini" first, October 7 "Nini" left, the company began to implement cloning. Through embryo reconstruction and implantation of surrogacy, on December 12, 2018, the clone dog "nini" was finally born. Yue Yue paid 380,000 yuan to let the former dog return in this way.
Today, the new little "nini" is bouncing around the room. For the last "Nini" once favorite toy duck, it bites and holds. The bed where the last "Nini" slept, it also tried to get up. It wrapped around Yue Yue's parents and swirled around Yue Yue's slippers. The same scream, similar gait, Yue Yue said that on her birthday today, it is the best gift to see "nini" coming home.
Yue Yue said that just like she and Nini need to re-acquaint themselves with each other, this time they may be different from the last time, but at least there will be another twenty years without separation.
In fact, the clone pet has entered our lives, we may wish to look at a few famous examples, Hollywood star Barbara Streisand, after losing the Touril dog Samantha who accompanied her for 14 years, chose to clone. Today, two of her three dogs are clone dogs, Violet and Scarlett. Because the two cloned dogs looked so much alike, Streisand had to dress them in different colors in order to distinguish them.
In 2001, the search and rescue dog of the last survivor, Trac, was found to have been unable to move his hind legs due to inhaling toxic gases at the scene of the 9/11 incident, and his hind legs have been unable to move since then, which was named by Time Magazine as the most heroic animal in history. In 2009, after his death, a biotechnology company successfully cloned five Trakas with their genes and gave them to former Trak's owner, Retired Police Officer Xue Mingdun.
In addition to the huge demand for the pet market, another area that cannot be ignored is the market for working dogs such as anti-drug dogs, search and rescue dogs, military dogs and guide dogs. Working dogs were previously bred naturally, but the cost of breeding was enormous. In the case of guide dogs, for example, it takes about 20,000 dogs to select an individual who can be competent for the guide work. And working dogs with strong sniffing genes such as anti-drug and bloodstain sniffing are basically unable to be copied through traditional breeding.
Nowadays, because there is no technical barrier to pet cloning, many commercial companies and institutions have begun to introduce pet cloning into ordinary homes, usually priced at more than 300,000 yuan. Although cloning is not cheap, today, cloning dogs are found in all corners of the world because it is easier for people to get than painful loss.
Many citizens think that this is a good way to follow suit, because the feelings with the pet are already very deep, it is inevitable that some reluctance, if technically allowed, why not enjoy it.
There are also citizens who understand this, but they will not do this, they think that nature flowers blossom, spring to autumn, have their own rules, there is no need to reverse it, cloned dogs, just the same appearance, the personality may be completely different, cloning it is just an illusion to appease themselves.
When your pet is gone, you clone its flesh, but you can't replicate all its memories of you. Even Streisand, who owns cloned dogs, implicitly admits that her two cloned puppies "have different personalities" and are very different from the original Samantha. She wrote in The New York Times: "Every puppy is unique and has its own personality. You can clone what it looks like, but you can't copy its soul. ”
(Video source: Yang Putai Reporter: Lu Junyan Editor: Shi Li)