Cloning your beloved dog is apparently legal at ViaGen for the low price of ~$50,000 USD

It would be an interesting mnultigenerational experiment to clone a dog every time it dies, and pass the dog & its genes along via cloning for 100 years. If I could get that for $50k, I'd pay for it today.

Not a guarantee that I have $50k to spend, but I do have $50k in thought experiment bucks.

The Dog of Theseus?

Just don’t name the dog Duncan Idaho!

I thought at first that Gunther the Dog would meet those requirements but when I looked it up it turns out that entire story was just made up by the guy administering the fund.

It hasn't, excepting for cloning humans.

It's just, largely pointless. Aside from hoping you can get another champion race horse, why would you spend a bunch of money to get a cloned animal?

I had an elderly neighbor that blacked out periodically for somewhat unclear reasons. Her dog was able to give her advance warning so that she can sit down before falling down. He wasn't trained, just did it naturally. She had the dog cloned with the hope that the trait was innate. The clone didn't really have the temperament of the clonee. Environment? Who knows.

Unfortunately, the neighbor had COVID-19 sequela that put her in a nursing home recently (greatly accelerated memory loss), so it was unclear if the clone would have been able to detect the same precursors to blacking out.

I just realised cloning pets is a thing now.

More interested in seeing if they can get the Wooly Mammoth up and running again!

I assume you'd still need a viable mother to grow the clone in. Easy with dogs, but who will carry the mammoth?