Most Expensive Dog Ever Sold
Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Luxury on February 2nd, 2009
A Florida couple just has just become the proud owners of the world’s first commercially cloned puppy—Lancelot Encore, the most expensive dog ever sold.
The Labrador retriever was cloned from samples thoughtfully taken by the couple five years ago from their beloved pet Lancelot. The cloned puppy looks just like his predecessor and the couple hopes that, being around the same people and many of the same dogs, Lancelot Encore will be every bit the alpha male that the original Lancelot was.
The couple won the chance to have their pet cloned in an auction held last July by BioArts, a California-based firm that employed Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to recreate their darling dog. The hammer price of the world’s most expensive dog was $155,000. That’s $100,000 more than was last paid for a commercially cloned animal, a bull named Second Chance.
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I think that cloneing is rediculous and should be illegal only God can create
I think that you waste your money on the dog. millions of people went to sleep hungry. why don’t you help those peoples beside wasting your money on the dog.
ya, well think of all the needy DOGS out there who have no homes, i think that this was a horrible thing, but i would most certainly do it if my little bandit ever died, it wouldnt be the same, but atleast we can have something to remember her by
thats just not right,i agree only our father in heaven creates,wow!
god doesnt create life, sperm entering an egg creates life. or asexual budding. there is nothing unnatural about this dog, he was created according to the laws of the universe that god created.
also some sharks can actually clone themselves. it happens. is that against god’s will?
Its also moronic considering the dog just has some of the same genetics or whatever — it doesn’t retain its memory or personality. Plus, depending on how old the dog was when they got the sample to clone it, this puppy could have a much shorter lifespan due to being genetically older.
They could’ve saved a ton of money just going to a shelter or something. Then again, there are a lot of dumb people out there.
I think this couple is OK… but labs are generally ‘the same’ in the sense they are either yellow, brown or black. Unless a cross, they won’t have any patterns on it. And so the couple, who although I appreciate must miss their dog dearly, could have looked at breeders and tried to ask the breeder if they sold any of the pups to /another/ breeder. That dog may carry the same temprement, and so the pups might, too. Problem solved.
But why not go to a shelter or donate that money to charity? u.u
This is natrual some animals in the wild clone them selfs Like the whiptail lizard there just born pregnant so they are copying there own DNA and so todays scientist have caught up with this thing in nature
That was too expensive!!! $155,000 is so big in here in the Philippines and it’s like 8 million in here in the Philippines!!! BTW I also have a dog but it;s not that expensive, I just loved him as my most expensive dog and he’s breed is Lhasa Apso!!!
i m sorry but this do isnot expensive. i live in america and Tibetan Mastiff is no where in reach my dad had to get it all the way from asia. my Tibetan Mastiff cost about $500,000 + more with travel. It was bought from the place called Nepal. Expensive but worth it dog. I got it on my Sweet 16 instead of a car. =] well worth it
its called diana n i love my dog!!
Anyways, you can easily get a pet retiever anywhere in the world. Why waste your life’s money just separating a zygote?? Cloning is illegal in most countries in the world, but if you have a fortune and want this scientist to clone this pet for you, they’ll agree right away and live their life filthy rich.
A question for bah:
Who created the first atom, or the first thing in the world? only God did. we don’t know who created god or watever, so it remains an absolute mystery to the world.
I don’t think so. An ordinary Tibetan Mastiff will be more than $300k, one good friend from China bought a Tibetan Mastiff at $600,ooo 2 days ago. That’s why I come to search any dog is more expensive than his. Not yet.
this is some stupid crap its no reason to clone a dog if there are millions of dogs out there that need homes
Religion is detrimental to scientific progress and the advancement of society…