14 DAY TRIAL // While we're anxiously waiting for scientists to clone a mammoth, I suppose no harm can come out of keeping ourselves entertained with the news that a South Korean company has recently rolled out a so-called cloning contest for pets.
The contest is meant to decide which dog in the UK is worthy of spending another lifetime with its owner.
The idea behind this contest is fairly simple: dog owners who wish to clone their pets are supposed to send The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation a 500-word essay saying why their pooch deserves to be duplicated.
Once the company settles on the winning essay, the dog's owner has to cough out $30,000 (€23,075), and then wait for their pet's clone to make its way out of laboratory doors.
The standard price for having your pet dog cloned is $100,000 (€76,916), so I guess whoever wins this competition will get themselves a very nice bargain.
Still, the scientists working with said South Korean company have no way of ensuring that one's new dog will behave just as the former one did, even if their genetic make-up is the same.
To put it bluntly: the winner might find themselves paying $30,000 for a dog that chews leather shoes, bites the mailman and steals food from the fridge.
People in the UK who are toying with the idea of cloning their pets are invited to send their essays to [email protected] by July 1 at the latest, Geek System reports.