TechnologyNext Best Thing? Clone of Man’s Best FriendNext Best Thing? Clone of Man’s Best FriendThe Associated PressAn American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull. The puppies were born to two surrogate mothers in South Korea. (Aug. 5)NATS UP How much is that cloned puppy in the window? This American woman just got five puppies that were cloned from her beloved late pit bull. A South Korean biotech firm claims this is the world’s first commercial dog cloning service.NATS UP Bernann McKinney received the dogs Tuesday, about five months after she requested that the company recreate her dead pet. McKinney’s dog died of cancer two years ago. And she wanted a clone because she was especially attached to the dog. McKinney said the dog saved her life when she was attacked by another dog three times his size. Following the incident, her left hand was amputated and her leg nerves and stomach were injured. Doctors later reconstructed her hand and she spent part of her recovery in a wheelchair. She said during that time her canine was more than just a companion. McKinney says the dog pulled her wheelchair when its battery ran out and helped her open the house door with his teeth even though the dog was never trained to do so. She says she’ll take three of the cloned dogs home and will donate the others to work as service dogs for the handicapped or elderly. Pet cloning is expensive. The South Korean company is charging between 50 to … Video Rating: 4 / 5
Question by Windy: What’s behind the “peeping tom” thing?
Last year at Halloween, my neighbor frantically came to my door telling me we had a “peeping tom” problem. Asked me to lengthen my dog’s chain ( which I did) so that he could easily get in between out houses. (our houses are very close together and there is no lightening) Still, every single morning before sun rise, I was awaken by my dog barking and the police running through our back yards with flash lights. They never caught him. My brother let me use his hunting camera which I put up in the back yard underneath a scarecrow. The calls to the police stopped, and there was no more problems. Since I couldn’t figure out how to work it, I never did get anything on film, but figured that since the calls stopped, it must have been the imagination of my neighbor who happened to be dying of ovarian cancer and was on some pretty strong meds.( Even though my neighbor on the other side of me did confirm seeing a man in my backyard hugging my back fence as if trying not to be detected.) Unfortunately my neighbor died. Her teenage daughter moved in with her father in another area. That was that. Now, this year – it’s Halloween and my son came in the house to tell me that the same neighbor ( the boyfriend) wanted me to know that he had to chase a peeping tom away from between our house the previous Sunday (so he was telling me almost 4 days after the fact) since I have always made it a habit to keep my blinds closed – day and night. I figured this person couldn’t possibly be trying to peep at me! (I do have a 5 year old daughter that I’m now concerned about) My daughter’s father thinks I am over reacting and that there really isn’t a peeping tom. And he may be right. My neighbor could be trying to get me to move. However, I don’t think so. Before I moved here my brother had told me a rumor about the lady who used to live with him. Said she was deep into group sex and more than likely the problem was one of a freaky lover catching a glimpse. With all of this being said, I happened to mention it for the first time to a female friend of mine. She didn’t seem to think it was as innocent as everyone else thinks it is. She said that I should be worried and that “peeping tom’s” are just a step down from rapists and murder’s. I can’t find anything on this and really don’t know what to do. I have a dog – a really BIG dog – which I think unfortunately he has made friends with since I find steak bones and all kinds of stuff in my back yard that I didn’t give him. What to do? Any advice.
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Answer by sintu_nivi people who enjoys others privecy and keeps lot of interest on it
Question by : Someone who knows a thing or 2 about selling Pitt bulls?! =)?
I have a blue nose brindle pitt bull that i have to breed and don’t know how much i could sell them for because i have have her papers. She is drop dead gorgeous, people are always wanting to buy her from me for $ 1,000 + but i could never get rid of her cause she’s my baby. She doesn’t have a mean bone in her body, in fact she thinks shes a big baby. She loves to cuddle, well mannered, always happy and quite the character. I never got her papers because i never planned on breeding her but now have to for 2 reasons. #1 she is too beautiful and wonderful to not have more babies and #2 she is having an issue with fake pregnancies and learned that when female dogs have an issue with repeated fake pregnancies if you don’t spade them their change of uterus cancer is quite high, but also learned that some people that had this problem with their Pitt bulls, bred them and then a couple months later their hormones balanced. I would spade her but i want one of her puppies terribly but just don’t quite ready for another one.
The stud is a BEAUTIFUL registered true blue nose Pitt bull which is EXACTLY like Molly (my female Pitt). He acts like a big baby and has the softest kindest natured soul who would never hurt a fly. He has a huge massive head and just overall is 100% perfect in my eyes.
Now i dont want to be greedy and over charge for their pups, but yet i dont want to be practily giving them away neither. How much do you think i should charge for these pups?
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Answer by ♦Dalmatian Appreciation♦ I’d say the fee a shelter charges for the adoption of their dogs would do – say $ 100 max.
APBT’s and their mixes are a dime a dozen in shelters and rescues, why on earth would you want to condemn more to euthanasia?
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Question by Puppyluv1426: Decided to euthanize my cat, did I do the right thing?
My spayed female persian cat was 14. She peed all over my house her whole life. I had her to several different vets over the years for tests. Tried several medications, none worked. I hired a vet behaviorist and implemented all the recommended changes- Nothing worked. The Vet said that sometimes it’s just this way and I can chose to live with it or put her down (she was 3 at the time). Since I have a large downstairs room I only use for workout equipment we confined her to that room and crated her at night in an extra large dog crate so she had plenty of room. The room is large, the flooring is vinyl and easy cleaned, she had scratch pads, toys and beds.We gutted the house and replaced all the flooring, sheetrock and furniture where she peed. Over the years this cat has ruined not only my house but cloths and family heirlooms. I spent everyday cleaning cat pee and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on cleaning products and replacing my personal belongings. I could never have company and even having repairmen in my house was embarassing because of the smell.
I give all that information to show the judgemental people who are going to criticize me that I spent 14 years living with this because I am a good pet owner who took responsibility and loved my cat. I don’t need laymen’s advice on how to cure cats peeing outside the box as I have literally tried EVERYTHING and did so under the guidance of a $ 450/hour DVM behaviorist.
The past year she lost half her body weight and stopped caring for herself. Her fur was always matted and she often pooped blood. The vet said there was not much that could be done, she probably had intestional lymphoma so it would be better quality of life to not treat her at her advanced age and just let her enjoy what time she had left. She was still enjoying affection, eating, drinking, pooping and peeing (all over the place).
I recently had a baby and did not have the time or energy to clean cat pee everyday, nor was the smell and fumes from heavy cleaners on cat pee good for my baby to breathe. I have a fenced in backyard so we started putting her outside on nice days, then crating her inside at night and in bad weather. The weather has been nice lately and she actually wanted to stay outside. This is where things went horribly wrong. Because she is old and had mats on her butt the flies were attracted. The swarmed her, layed eggs in her mats and caused sores on her skin. I took her back to the vet where he shaved her bottom, cleaned her wounds, gave her antibiotics and said to leave her inside. I followed these directions but she started peeing downstairs again. Out of frustration over the smell one day the babysitter threw her outside while we were at work. The cat went missing for 2 days then I found her at my door meowing to come in. When I went to pick her up I smelled the awful smell of sepsis and saw once again flys got to her. One of her hind legs was degloved to the bone and swarming with maggots. I brought her to the emergency 24 hour vet and he said I could spend the estimated $ 3500 for 4 days of hospitalization and treatment and most likely she still wouldn’t survive, or I could humanely put her down. She was scared and in pain and besides not having $ 3500 to spend, I looked at her frail, skinny body and badly damaged leg and I made the decision to let her go and be in peace. It has been killing me with grief and guilt for days. Do you think I did the right thing or should I have tried to save her?
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Answer by Marc Elemental You tried everything.Nothing could save her
Question by ☼▬Jessi Ann▬☼: Does this sound like the right thing to do, to you?
I am an english bullie owner and i frequent a website for bullies and their owners, and we post messages and are very close all of us regulars on that board. One of the owners has a bullie as well as a 9yr old rottie. The rottie has osteosarcoma and was given 6 months to live. The owner decided to do a leg amputation on the affected limb to prolong life and give the dog a few more months. She took the dog in today around noon and they finished the surgery at 3:30pm. She told us everything went well. The she messaged us at 10:45pm to say while trying to get the dog out of the car into her house the dog started hemorrhaging and bled everywhere. She had to call her vet he came out emergently and wrapped the amputation site, put the dog on Iv’s and gave it a morphine shot. The dog is now at home with the owner and getting morphine shots every 5 hours. She just posted saying the dog is crying constantly and is very much in pain. She’s already given it it’s morphine and it can’t have anymore for 2 more hours. SHe’s trying to keep the dog calm so it won’t pull out it’s IV’s but its thrashing and whining when she tries to reposition the dog so it can be more comfortable? Does this whole situation sound right to you guys? I would have thought no Vet would let a dog go home less than 24 hrs after an amputation surgery?
I did some reading on this disease and it says that even with an amputation and chemo most dogs don’t live more than 1 year. And with amputation surgery i would think recovery would take months? What kind of quality of life can this poor dog have? This lady is distraught and i want to be there for her but at the same time i am shaking my head in disbelief. How could you let your dog suffer like this?
The owner just mentioned that she hopes the dog could live to 14 or so? I’m wondering if she’s just in denial about the illness and the prognosis?
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Answer by kanani The love of a dog is amazing. My 4 year old Rottie was hit by a bus yesterday and broke his leg. The feelings that overcame me before we found out it was a fractured bone in his leg was agonizing. To think you may lose your pet is very difficult. However, if my dog was suffering, I would refuse to leave the hospital no matter the cost. I am not wealthy, but I love my dog as much as I love my children. I don’t think I could bear to see him suffer though.
I sure hope this lady thinks about what her dog is going through and not her own feelings.
Question by john: CAN YOU TELL ME SOME THING ABOUT CANCER IN DOGS.ie TYPE,LESION,APPEARENCE and ALL OTHER FACTORS THAT YOU KNOW.
Please tell me about tumors in dogs
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Answer by linda_jack20002000 I do know that dogs developer tumors from having too many unnecessary shots by the vet. Rabies is the only shot you have to give a dog after it has had it’s early 1st year puppy shots. Dogs have been developing tumors in the injection sites for years and it is my belief that too many shots are to reason
I have a Boston Terrier dog who is 10 years old. She was a runt of the litter, so we are surprised she lived this long. She has good days and not so good days. Some days she acts like she is a pup again, but then others, she sleeps all day and is very cranky. The last visit to the vet, they found a lump on her ear and the vet thinks it might be tumor, but we are waiting to see if it grows. Why do I feel guilty about letting her go. She had a bad back and is pain sometimes, but other days, she is running around the house with our 1 year old son having the time of her life. The doctor said that if it grew that is would be more than likely cancer and I would have to make the decision to either let her go in peace or take her home and let life takes it coarse. I am crying as I type this post. She was my first dog and I love her like a child, but now that i have a child, I understand that she is a dog. I just don’t want to make the wrong decision. Can anyone out there give me some advice. My husband and I can not afford surgery or therapy if it was cancer, so he thinks we should let her go peacefully and not be in pain. I also think that it has something to do with the fact I had bone cancer at 16 (I am now 20), so I guess it is still a little raw. I am cured now and been in remission for 4 years now! Some days, I am alright with letting her go, but others I can’t take the pressure. Please someone, help me feel like I am doign the right thing… i think.
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