Genetic Savings and Clone

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Genetic Savings & Clone, Inc. is the name of a company headquartered in Sausalito, CA that offers commercial pet gene banking and cloning services. The company opened for business in February 2000, launched its pet cloning service in February 2004, and delivered the world's first commercially cloned cat, Little Nicky, in December 2004.

[edit] Controversy

The company has attracted criticism from those who believe that cloning is unnatural, that it is unethical for people to obtain pets from commercial sources when so many homeless pets languish in shelters, that animal cloning is a slippery slope to human cloning, and that cloning harms the animals involved. Divergent arguments about these issues appear on the web sites NoPetCloning.org [1] and DefendPetCloning.org [2].

Despite some successes cloning cats, the company was not able to create a viable commercial business and closed at the end of 2006. Letters to this effect were sent out to clients at the end of September 2006, informing them of this decision and offering to transfer any genetic material to another facility.