Cloning Your Dog May Not Be A Good Idea

Posted by | December 2, 2012 22:16 | Filed under: Top Stories


Gary Rintel cloned his late dog Astro, and the neighborhood isn’t happy.

Rintel had Astro’s DNA frozen twice and then paid $140,000 four years ago to a lab to insert the DNA into a donor egg that would be implanted into a surrogate.

That’s how Cosmo and Retro were born 3 1/2 years ago.

Parkgoers have been fuming over the dogs’ bad behavior — and Rintel’s — ever since…’“We call them ‘the clones,’ ” said a dog owner who claims the two pooches came out of nowhere and attacked his black Lab puppy in Central Park. When the man tried to intervene, one of the clones bit his hand, he said.

Rintel eventually walked over to apologize, the victim said.

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