Is the Best Friends Again project exploiting grieving pet owners who have lost their beloved animals and think that cloning will bring them back?
Although we’re sensitive to the grief felt by people whose pets have died, most of our clients seek our services while their pets are still alive. Regardless, we help all prospective clients make informed choices based on realistic expectations about cloning. We decline business from people who want us to bring specific pets back to life. Nobody can do that. Our goal is to produce new pets possessing the same genes as previous pets. That’s what our clients want and it’s a service we can realistically perform. back to top> • Isn’t this playing God? Humankind has been shaping nature for thousands of years, since the beginning of agriculture and animal husbandry. We see cloning as a new form of assisted reproduction, not that different from artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization, perceived by some as “ungodly” when introduced just decades ago. back to top> • Isn’t cloning cheating death? We don’t see how. Both the genetic donor and the clone, like all living things, will eventu
