Comments on OKAY, OKAY—THEY'RE CLONING PIT BULLS!!!
Now I've got Pet Cemetery stuck in my head.
The larval puppy form is really much cuter than it has any right to be.
OK, it would be cool if they were gay handicapped pitbulls who took express buses, voted for McCain, had a fetish for Italian women, wanted to work at the PI and hated "fixies."
Complaining about how many slog tips you get? Fuck that Dan, it's a good thing that people think of your blog and want to share!
No, we love the Slog tips. It's just that this one has come in a million times today.
Sequel: Evil pit bulls repent and chip in to clone owner they tore to shreds.
Pitbull owners are known to name their children "Booger" too.
I think it's cool that this lady made the sacrifice required to fulfill her dream. I wish I had half as much nerve as she, to do the things I dream about doing.
Will the concluding sentence of this post be mentioned in the City Auditor's report that Jonah just blogged about?
Wow, I never really used to believe that owners and pets often end up looking alike, but then this story comes along!
Just imagine what $50,000 could do....feed an army of homeless people, help build a Habitat for Humanity house, help defeat Prop 8...and this bitch just makes more bitches?? UNbelievable.
I've never seen a blonde pit before.
My only hope is that once the five Hell spawn dine on the trachea and innards of that hillbilly they can somehow magically make their way to Cap. Hill to savagely consume Mr. Savage and his loathsome poodle.
Where did that woman get 50 grand for this abomination? She looks like she can barely afford payments on her space at the Hooterville Trailer Park.
@11 - And just imagine what one could do with an army of homeless people!
I know it's silly thing to do, but she looks so happy, I really can't hate her.
The US Army is already building an army of homeless people, one discharged Iraq veteran at a time.
Replenishing the army of homeless people they built in Vietnam, you know.
@14 "She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000"
Um. I'm not a lawyer, but isn't "a danger to oneself or [and] others" grounds for involuntary commitment? now cashing in your 401k for a pet might be a gray area, but selling your house is Prima facie Nuts, No more ifs or ands or buts,oh no (IMHO).
I wonder how many shelter dogs (pitts or otherwise) she could have helped with that $50,000 instead of buying 5 damn cloned puppies? This woman needs serious help.
Have anyone listened to the bull story. It's creepy. If all 5 of these dogs turn out this way there will be a lot of biting.
And to everyone who thinks 50 K is too much money to spend on something like this... 14 millions just got paid for some cheesy photos of some 3 weeks old twins...
"I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone."
Yes, this is a great idea instead of just going to a shelter to pick up one of the millions of shelter dogs put down every year. Idiot.
Dude, the one to the right is the worst clone I've ever seen. Fuck.
The idiots are the millions and millions of Americans who don't spay and neuter their pets. That's why the shelters kill so many animals. And the millions and millions of Americans who will drop everything to look at pictures of Angelina's twins. That's why the $14 million.
The problem is not "them," the problem is us.
@23 YR DOIN IT RONG
Hi, stalker. Sorry about, you know, that you're a stalker. It must suck.
People mag paying 14 million for pics is a business decision. Put pics on mag, sell millions of mags, make way more than 14 million. Far far different from someone who sells her house to clone her dog.
Ummmm... Do people like this realize that actual cloning isn't like it is in sci-fi/action movies? Cloning your deceased pet is not going to in any way reincarnate the animal.
You may start out with the same raw genetic material, but each subsequent animal is going to have entirely unique pre- and post-natal development, experiences, memories, etc. Chances are, the clones aren't even going to LOOK exactly like the original animal, let alone behave the same.
So yeah, the clones aren't going to be duplicates of the original in any substantive way. The original "Booger" was a male, so given how unrecognizably unique each clone is going to be, this stupid cunt would have been just as well off had she harvested a little doggy-sperm and created a litter of hellspawn pups the "ol' fashion' way."
At least she'd be better off by forty-nine thousand and some odd dollars and a trip to South Korea, minus the bills for artificial insemination from the vet.
A similar situation was covered in the story of a cloned bull named "Second Chance," on "This American Life." Both the radio and TV shows had versions of the story.
Given their regular breeding restrictions, I wonder what the AKC has to say about cloning?
I'd feel less like a pedantic asshole if I'd realized before commenting that Dan linked directly to the T.A.L. story in his post.
I didn't follow the link initially because I was positive it was a reference to Pet Semetary.
P.S.: Dan, you really need to broaden the crusade to include schnauzers. Pit bulls may frequently snap and kill an unsuspecting bystander, but schnauzers are the assholes of the dog world.
Seriously--schnauzers are like furry little Nellie Olesons. They totally suck up to their owners, but the very instant everyone's back is turned they go right for your throat.
These are the booger beard years.
We're coming!
signed - the Pit Bulls
she looks like she could consume the puppy in four easy bites - and not even fart a lot
such a stupid person - I hope she is not raising children
Pitbulls, clones, ugly women, Savage bitching at his readers. This is the prototype slog they'll hand out to interns.
@31...You win.
@27: Pit bulls are not AKC registerable (although American Staffordshire Terriers are, and they're basically the same thing). AKC has a DNA program, so I am guessing that if they had the DNA of a dog on record, and that dog was cloned, they'd have to accept it as the same dog--but I doubt they're going to encourage any of that...
I think cloning a pet is silly too, but let's face it--most of us do at least SOME silly things with our money. Saying "you could have saved n to the 20th power homeless people" isn't productive.
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Regarding the general viciousness of pitbulls:
"McKinney said she was especially attached to Booger because he saved her life when she was attacked by another dog three times his size. The incident resulted in her left hand being severely injured, and also damaged her leg nerves and stomach. Doctors later reconstructed her hand and she spent part of her recovery in a wheelchair.
McKinney said Booger acted as more than just a canine companion as she recuperated from the attack.
Her dog pulled her wheelchair when its battery ran out. He opened her house door with his teeth and helped her take off her shoes and socks, even though she never trained him to do so.
"The most unusual thing about Booger was that he has a unique ability to reason," she said. "He seems to understand I couldn't use my hands."
Wait- they reconstructed her hand? They can do that now?
Awesome!
What's really offensive is that she spent so much money to bring 5 more pit bulls into the world when there are thousands in need of homes. Stupid wealthy cunt.
Ooooo! So cute! Those saggy chins and pink tongue and wrinkly eyes! And the puppy's cute too!
@39: I'm going to go against the grain here. Temperament is HUGELY genetic. You can make a shy dog less shy through socialization, and work with a more aggressive dog through training and socialization, but in general, ESPECIALLY with breeds with temperament problems, you want to see at least one parent and get an idea of what to expect with the puppies (BTW, this works for mixed breeds too.) Yes, there are plenty of perfectly nice dogs available for adoption from shelters and rescue groups. There are also neurotic messes and time bombs, and not everyone is equipped to either identify those dogs or handle those dogs if they end up with them. And not every shelter is honest with you about the issues a dog may have.
@39 for the win, @31 for runner up.
One of the problems with cloning is that the clone starts out with DNA, both cellular and mitochondrial which is damaged in direct proportion to the age of the original (sheep, dog, power-mad dictator) at the time the tissue was taken. So, even though that puppy is only a few days old, its DNA is that of an old dog nearing death. Cloned animals do not live as long as the original.
Dan, normally I'm a fan, but you made one serious error with this post. You're right, of course, to point out that this is a total obscenity, and the other comments have elaborated why the is so repulsive.
The one repulsive thing you did? Calling her fat. Saying "well, it looks like they won’t have to go [at her throat] one at a time" not only ignores the real issues, it's beneath you. Who cares if she's fat? A skinny woman, an average man, a one-legged hermaphrodite could have cloned their dogs, and it would have been equally repulsive.
Insulting someone's appearance rather than her actions is petty and unimaginative, and I expect more from you.
British and U.S. ewspapers are reporting today that she's possibly a suspected rapist from 1978 who fled to England during her bizarre trial in the U.S.
Here's a more detailed (and crazy!) version of the same story:
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