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Animal experimentation on dogs leads to fluorescent puppies

by Jillian @ http://blueshelled.com . June 6, 2009 . 5:50PM

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a Poky Little Puppy. This was a very mischievous puppy and he couldn’t seem to stay in his yard. Every day, his mother would call for him and tell him that dinner was ready and that he needed to come in, and every day, that little puppy would be out wandering the world. He would dawdle into the house whenever his poky little legs felt like it and would be very, very sad that he was so slow to come home because his little tummy would rumble. There’s a moral to that story. But that’s not this story.

In this story, the poky little puppy wandered to another land, far, far away. A place where puppies aren’t safe. A place called South Korea. And in this place, the Poky little puppy had his DNA cloned and merged with genes similar to those of a sea anemone, which is an underwater creature. This was done by a scientist who said that he was was doing it to produce a puppy that, because of a long lifespan, might help cure human illness. However, what this merging did was TURN THE PUPPY INTO A GLOWSTICK!!!!

For comparison: The glowstick

Glowstick 1.0

The puppy:

Poky puppy 2.0

Poky puppy 2.0

Byeong-Chun Lee, the South Korean researcher, is not the first to make animals glow. The question here is why? What is the purpose of making them light up like a Christmas tree? Besides wasting money and time on other efforts, you know like those pesky things such as cancer and AIDS. Instead, some of our top researchers are focusing on making animals glow. It can’t be good for the animals and I fail to see how it’s worth our time and money.

Please, enlighten me?

Jillian

Filed under: animals,dogs,Ethical questions,human interest,humane efforts,opinion,research | Tags: animal experimentation, animals, cloned puppy, dogs, glowing puppy, human interest, humane efforts, opinion, research, research on animals, ruppy

6 Comments

Neil_Stevens says:

June 6, 2009 at 6:17 pm

Whether the result glows is easy to test and probably genetically simple as well.

Consider it practice for more complicated genetic tomfoolery. A trial run in the shallow end.
Jillian says:

June 6, 2009 at 8:16 pm

I don’t see anything good coming from this. We aren’t even close, genetically speaking, to many of the animals they are testing this on.
Neil_Stevens says:

June 6, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Doesn’t matter if we’re genetically close when we’re working on the technology and the tools needed.

This isn’t a study of the dog’s genome. This is a study of gene splicing tech.

Besides, most governments would prohibit, and most sane pepole wouldn’t want to volunteer for, actual human testing right off the bat.

That’s not to say I think it’s necessarily a good thing to monkey around with. But I think starting with a dog like this makes sense for this kind of research, since previous work has been done on smaller, less complicated organisms.
Elizabeth Barrette says:

June 7, 2009 at 1:00 am

Well, if you want to make delirious amounts of money, one way to do that is through pets, because people spend loads of money on pets. It won’t save the world, but it can make you rich without having to, say, become a bank CEO and rob people.

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Deanna says:

June 7, 2009 at 10:55 am

This is just WRONG. What is wrong with you people???

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Jillian says:

June 7, 2009 at 3:43 pm

@Neil I see why it would be easy to test, but I am not a fan of this kind of research. Genes are tricky things and it feels like a little tweaking could turn into something dangerous. Chances are, we won’t see the end result if things go wrong with these animals. Only if something goes right.

@Elizabeth Do you mean by selling Glowstick Puppies? Like the new designer dog?

@Deanna Huh? Do you mean what is wrong with us or what is wrong with the researchers? Because I don’t see anyone actually supporting what’s happening. I asked for someone to help explain why they might be doing it and people are trying. It doesn’t mean they actually agree. I appreciate your passion, though.

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