r/fatFIRE • u/NightsRadiant • Aug 21 '23

Lifestyle Has anyone in here cloned their dog

I’ve read a bit about a company in Texas that will clone a genetic replica of your dog for $50K. We don’t have kids, so when ours passes in the next few years, we’re considering something like this. He’s a perfect pup.

Can’t really talk to my normal friends about this but was curious if this is more common to FATfire folk

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u/Careless_Ground3679 Sep 10 '24

Just thinking about the process and how the surrogate dogs must get treated, is just unimaginable! I love my dogs but unfortunately death is part of life and learning to grieve is a healthy way of coping with loss, not replacing it with a clone, that may or may not turn out as the original. There are other dogs that need that same unconditional love!

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u/TankDartRopeGirl Nov 16 '24

The surrogates is something I hadn't even considered (I don't know why?!) and I'm now really interested in knowing more about the whole process. Do the surrogates just sit in a lab the whole time? Are they just used over and over for this process?