Study: cloned service dogs likely easier to train

More importantly, two noses in desperate need of booping!

I’m generally in favour of genetic science such as GMO food (currently keeping the world from starving to death), retroviral disease treatment, etc. However a large scale service dog cloning operation seems like a bad idea. Purebred dogs are already rife with genetic disorders- bad hips, sinuses, ears, etc. Every breed has some chronic genetic issue that is the result of hundreds of years of inbreeding.

Cloning is only going to exacerbate this problem by thinning diversity even more, and we’re gonna end up with a bunch of poor sick doggos who didn’t ask for this.

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