Woof Woof?

Oh how I miss Scruffy. No other dog will defend me against the neighbor's son the way he once did.

So we're cloning dogs now, commercially. I guess they're an endangered species now. This article on BBC News seriously disturbed me. It not only disturbed me that a South Korean woman would be inclined to clone her deceased canine companion, but because the scientists actually agreed to do so!

They say that this will be the first time that this will be the first time that a dog will be cloned commercially, and that, though it's only costing her roughly $150,000 (plus her sanity), it may eventually cost only, say, $50,000 in the future. Ridiculous. Think of how many Kibbles & Bits that could buy (do they still make that brand?)!!

In a world where people are starving, ethnic groups are being exterminated, and the very well-being of the planet is constantly calculated, do we really need to cut the ear off of dying Scruffy to preserve his "essence"?