While this story will hopefully never be remotely related to
parenting human babies, this woman’s quotes are so priceless that I just had to
share. Plus, she’s essentially paying to torture puppies, and she should get some
backlash for it, even if it’s only of the indignant blogger variety.
Losing a pet is awful. No one knows this better than I, who
cried for days after my goldfish died. (Don’t even get me started on my dog.) So I feel for Bernann McKinney, who took the loss of her beloved pit
bull Booger quite hard. Still, I can’t exactly condone her method of grieving. McKinney recently became
the first person in the world to pay to clone a pet. After selling her house to
raise the necessary sum—when defying death, one must make sacrifices—McKinney
had a South Korean cloning company create five puppies using a piece of the
original Booger’s ear.
McKinney couldn’t be happier
with Booger McKinney, Booger Lee, Booger Ra, Booger Hong, and Booger Park.
“I dream of the day, some day, when everyone can afford to clone their pet
because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone,” she said.
Let us pray that McKinney’s
dream is never realized. Cloning carries a high risk of miscarriage and still
birth, and those animals that do survive are usually plagued with health
problems. As RSPCA scientist Penny Hawkins put it, “I can’t believe that any
true dog lover would condone causing suffering to dogs and wasting their lives
for such a trivial and selfish purpose, particularly when animal shelters
worldwide have thousands of dogs who need loving homes.” I'm pretty sure Booger would agree.
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