Whats the harm in cloning a companion animal?
While there may be no direct harm to the original animal, many other animals are exploited as production units. In the cloning laboratory, female cats are injected with hormones to synchronize their reproductive states and they undergo multiple surgeries to implant cloned embryos and extract fetuses. The odds are against the kittens survival. Feline cloning techniques are so new that no one yet knows the long-term consequences. Up to 45% of cloned cats born in one pet cloning laboratory will die within one month, confessed the company’s CEO. In dog cloning experiments, hundreds of dogs are housed in the laboratory because their reproductive periods are less frequent. People can avoid these risks by adopting a homeless animal.
