People let their dog cloning, for BNN Dutch television program RTL News

Imagine, your beloved dog is on the verge of death, but you can your four-legged friend again for many years to have you by the creature to clone. A couple from Rotterdam, did just that: they left their twelve-year-old bulldog Joep counterfeiting in South Korea.

The very first cloned Dutch pet is, therefore, a fact, according to television station BNN. Cloning of pets within the European Union illegally, therefore let Hans and Pup their bulldog in South Korea clones. According to The Telegraph it took 50,000 euros, but that hefty amount was not by themselves but by omroep BNN paid. They make a television program about the subject.

The ‘original’, Joep, is death, but the Rotterdam couple is overjoyed with clone Pipo. “It’s not just the external features which are almost identical. We are daily amazed at the conduct and character, that on so many points corresponds with our old dog. That is not to believe”, they tell The Telegraph.

Television

For the clone to be able to make had the Rotterdam set a piece of tissue from dog Joep to a laboratory in South Korea send.

The initiative for this came not from the owners of Joep. They responded to a call from BNN. The creators of the television show, Sophie Hilbrand, and Bas Haring, want a public discussion begin about the ban on cloning.

Dolly the sheep

Moreover, the cloning of animals is not new. A tight twenty years ago, Dolly the sheep alive, which was the very first clone of an adult animal. The expectations were high but were ultimately not totally true. After six years died the beast to osteoarthritis, while a sheep easily eleven year old can be.

Cloning is allowed under European regulations, therefore, only under strict conditions. So is the cloning of pets is illegal, as is cloning for food production.

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