Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend
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John Woestendiek looks into the business of commercial dog cloning, an industry that grew out of one grieving owner's decision. The story begins with a pit bull named Booger, whose owner, a former beauty queen, paid a large sum to have a genetic copy of her dog made. In 2008 the effort produced five puppies, the first commercial cloning of a dog, and that outcome raised pressing questions.
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Rather than treating the subject only as a pet story or only as a science story, the author follows the people who sell, buy and carry out these procedures. He examines how strong feelings of attachment shape demand, and how the pull of profit and emotion can push research past its ethical limits.
The book asks whether the drive to keep a loved animal alive, combined with a fast-moving scientific field, is leading us to bend rules we once held firm.
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