The patents have already been in place for a long time. This means for example, someone’s twin will be “owned” by their copyright owner, and the clone will have no rights as a human being.

Abomination? You bet.

First, aren’t there are already an excess of unwanted dogs in the world? I realize that the attractiveness of a cloned pet is that it will look identical to the original, but still… They tell pet owners to get their animals spayed/neutered, the pounds have to destroy unwanted animals, and this company is charging huge amounts of money to artificially create more? Sounds like an anwer in search of a problem to me.

Second, I seem to recall that animal cloning has been less than 100% successful to date. I’m fuzzy on the details, but I seem to remember something about the cloned cells reflecting the age of the animal they were taken from, rather than being “young” like a natural born animal.