[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Registering Cloned Dogs ???????
- From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wasatchgld@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:24:13 -0400
The way the conditional registration is set up, you only need a dam anyway.
I'm sure the AKC will figure out a way to register clones. They've
probably got a committee working on it already...and then they can
microchip all those, too.
Are clones sterile? Hmmm. Guess they wouldn't be able to breed them
for three generations and then give them full registration, tho!
Peggy
Wasatchgld@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>I can't see how they can - they would need a sire and a dam. In the case
>of a cloned dog, you only have a dam. Even that could be questionable,
>since my understanding is that there are still an unusually high amount
>of cell mutations (most resulting in deformed or mentally deficient animals)
>that might throw of a DNA test.
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>With the reported number of progeny that have to be put down in order
>to get one healthy "clone", it seems about like breeding two dogs
>carrying severe inheritable defects with the hope of one unaffected
>pup. Not sure I see the ethics in it - especially since the clones I've
>read about don't have the same personality or exact appearance of the
>animal they came from anyway.
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>Doesn't make any sense to me,
>
>Janice
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>In a message dated 8/13/2007 1:01:02 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
>murfamx4@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>At lunch today we were talking dogs (like most days) and the conversation
>came around to Registering Cloned dogs. I was at a loss to even levy a
>guess.
> Has this topic ever been discussed????? Would the AKC allow them to be
>registered????
>
>None of us are considering this but were having more of a "what if"
>conversation.
>
>Thanks
>Glenn
>
>Shaden Shepherds
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>Janice Buchanan
>Wasatch-Gold German Shepherds
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