South Korea’s Dog Cloning Industry

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Summary

TLDRHistorien om LC Li, en botaniker, handler om hans dybe forbindelse til sin hund, Mau, der døde i 2019. Som buddhist følte Li, at han havde en åndelig forbindelse med Mau, og efter hendes død overvejede han kloning. Han fandt en sydkoreansk virksomhed, der kloner kæledyr, og på trods af de høje omkostninger lykkedes det ham at samle penge til projektet. Kloningsprocessen viste sig at være udfordrende, men Li fik til sidst tre kloner af Mau, som han fandt følelsesmæssigt rørende, da de mindede ham om hans elskede hund.

Takeaways

  • 💔 LC Li mistede sin elskede hund, Mau.
  • 🐾 Li's kloningsrejse begyndte efter en drøm om Mau.
  • 🇰🇷 Han fandt en sydkoreansk kloningsvirksomhed.
  • 💰 Kloning koster $100,000, men Li fik rabat.
  • 🏥 Kloningsprocessen involverer svangerskaber og C-sektioner.
  • 🐶 Tre kloner af Mau blev født, men med udfordringer.
  • 😢 Li følte en dyb forbindelse til klonerne.
  • 🔬 H Bion har klonet over 1,600 hunde siden 2009.
  • 🌱 Li er også botaniker med en tropisk plantemarked.
  • 🙏 Li's rejse fremhæver dybe bånd mellem mennesker og kæledyr.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Li Li er en botaniker, der ejer et tropisk planteskole, og han havde en meget tæt forbindelse til sin hund Mau, som døde i 2019. Li, en hengiven buddhist, tilbragte de sidste måneder med Mau, inden hun gik bort. Efter Mau's død drømte Li om, at hun ville vende tilbage, hvilket fik ham til at undersøge pet-kloning, som han anså for muligt, baseret på sine religiøse overbevisninger. Selvom kloning er en dyr proces, fik han en rabat på $100.000 på grund af Mau's historie, og han samlede midler til at gennemføre kloningen, på trods af hvad folk ville tænke. Li troede virkelig, at det ville give Mau en chance for at 'vende tilbage'.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:45

    Kloningsprocessen udføres af et firma grundlagt af Dr. Hang, som tidligere var blevet beskyldt for bedrageri i forbindelse med kloning af menneskeceller. Li blev ledsaget i labbet, hvor han blev præsenteret for processen, der involverer udtrækning og ændring af dyrenes DNA. Efter flere fejlslagne kloninger blev Hope, klonen af Mau, født sundt, men uden at Li kunne møde hende fysisk. Da Li endelig mødte Hope og de to andre kloner senere, følte han, at en af dem, Moon, mindede ham mest om Mau, hvilket bragte en stærk følelsesmæssig reaktion i ham. Han betragtede hundene som en inkarnation af Mau, hvilket gav ham en følelse af glæde og forløsning.

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Video Q&A

  • Hvad fik LC Li til at klone sin hund?

    Li ønskede at genopleve båndet til sin afdøde hund, Mau, efter hendes død.

  • Hvad er kloningsomkostningerne?

    Kloning koster omkring $100,000, men Li fik rabat på grund af sin historie.

  • Hvordan reagerede Li på klonerne?

    Li følte en dyb forbindelse til klonerne, især til en, der mindede ham mest om Mau.

  • Hvilke etiske bekymringer er der ved kloning af kæledyr?

    Der er bekymringer om dyrevelfærd og mulige defekter hos klonene.

  • Hvad skete der med de første kloner?

    Den første klon døde efter to dage, og andre blev aborteret, men til sidst blev tre sunde kloner født.

  • Hvornår blev klonerne født?

    De tre kloner blev født i september 2020.

  • Hvad arbejdede virksomheden H Bion med før kloning af kæledyr?

    Virksomheden var tidligere involveret i forskning i kloning af menneskelige embryoner.

  • Hvordan følte Li efter at have mødt klonerne?

    Li følte sig følelsesmæssigt overvældet og kunne ikke holde tårerne tilbage, fordi klonerne mindede ham om Mau.

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  • 00:00:10
    LC Li is a pretty unique
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    guy you see that he's a botanist with
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    his own tropical plant nursery the
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    singing ball not only sound and a
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    spiritual teacher things but also the
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    but there's one pretty relatable thing
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    about him he really loves his
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    pet
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    Mau AKA Jen Jen AKA Shae and Li are
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    inseparable or at least they were until
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    Mau died in
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    [Music]
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    2019 lie is a devout Buddhist something
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    he believes that he and Mau had in
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    common so I can do the meditate hours by
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    hours by hours miraculously M will be
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    just sitting next to me no barking no
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    home asking food no she just be so quiet
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    she know what she's
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    doing When Mama's Health took a turn for
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    the worst a couple years ago lie left
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    his job for 2 months so they could spend
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    the rest of her life together that's
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    when he got a wild idea from Mau but in
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    my
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    dream she just open her mouth to tell
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    me she will come back from strong
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    career Li's dream made him Google up the
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    words come to life and Korea and he
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    found a South Korean company that's one
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    of only a handful in the world that
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    clones
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    pets I know it clone is only represent
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    the identical genome I don't want to
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    have like a stff animal I just want to a
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    dog just look like her no I don't want
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    to do that yeah because from from my
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    understanding of Buddhism is that if you
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    and especially if Mama had such a
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    wonderful fulfilled life there's no need
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    to bring her back she she can move on
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    absolutely yes after M passed away Li
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    had her cremated Li says he found what
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    he believed to be Sera colored crystals
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    left by Buddhist Masters when they die
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    he took that as a second sign from Mau
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    that she wanted to come back is this all
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    for her or for
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    you for her def
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    if I didn't have the dream if I didn't
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    have the response from her Sera I don't
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    think I will do that and by the way it
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    is very
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    expensive it is very expensive the
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    company live found charges around
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    $100,000 to clone one pet it's more than
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    Li could afford but the head of the
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    company offered him half off because of
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    mau's story and the fact that lie would
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    be their first client in Taiwan
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    Li managed to pull together the funds
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    with some help from his family probably
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    people will think oh you're so crazy
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    you're so bizarre but that that doesn't
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    [Music]
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    matter I'm Dexter I'm Claire nice to
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    meet you good to meet you too welcome to
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    [Music]
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    biot we have a lot of puppies right now
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    and then we also have the surrogate
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    mothers that are kept with the puppies
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    that until they are wind so all the moms
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    are big dogs as you can see because big
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    dogs can carry any breed small dogs can
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    only carry small breeds the breed of the
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    mom won't have any effect on how the
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    baby will look like soam biotech which
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    is now known as H Bion Incorporated has
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    successfully cloned over 1,600 dogs
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    since 2009 how excited it was founded by
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    Dr hang
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    Wok at one point Dr hang was known as
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    the quote pride of Korea for his work in
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    cloning human embryos and extracting
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    stem cells from them the first step to
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    cloning actual people but in 2006 his
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    data was found to be fake and he was
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    charged with embezzlement and bioethics
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    law violations he apologized and avoided
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    jail time but he was barred from doing
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    stem cell research on humans something
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    he says he's changed his opinion on
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    anyway
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    scientist
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    many ethicists have major concerns with
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    cloning pets too they're worried about
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    cruelty to surrogates and birth defects
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    in the
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    Clones but Dr hang has been able to turn
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    his past expertise into a successful
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    [Music]
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    business all right so they said they'd
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    show me how the cloning process actually
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    works but kind of like get dressed
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    up
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    [Music]
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    [Laughter]
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    inside the lab there's a room full of
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    texts hard at work on something that
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    wasn't immediately recognizable oh my
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    god when I first walked in I thought
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    they were eating lunch oh my God those
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    are not meatballs those are
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    ovaries oh
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    [Music]
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    man
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    [Music]
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    the extracted nucleus is replaced with
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    DNA from the animal they want to clone
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    the DNA becomes a nucleus of a new life
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    which is then implanted into a surrogate
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    mother so how many of these do you
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    do no no kidding
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    me okay I think I think I'm in you did
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    it I did it yeah wa what do you think
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    can I get a job here yeah you have
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    [Music]
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    talent
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    [Music]
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    Dr Wang let us watch two Clon puppies
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    being delivered by
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    C-section we may get two puppies the
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    color will be a white and the breed is M
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    piece the Sixx are is
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    female
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    [Music]
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    oh
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    man oh my God it smells like something
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    that's cooking which is kind of
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    disgusting one baby two baby
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    [Music]
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    wow how many times do you use a
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    surrogate mother for these processes uh
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    animal rights activists say the cloning
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    process causes unnecessary suffering to
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    surrogate dogs and to the clones too who
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    were often miscarried aborted or born
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    with defects Dr hang thinks that's
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    missing the
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    point
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    a representative of H Bion said the
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    cloning Mau was unusually difficult the
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    first clone died of heart failure after
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    2 2 days other nonviable clones were
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    aborted but in September 2020 hope AKA
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    Mau 2.0 was born via
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    C-section the pandemic meant that lie
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    could only see her on video chats it's
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    very interesting uh because the color is
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    not the same it doesn't look like U
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    identical in my memory but it's still
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    very
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    cute hope was also born with a defect
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    that kept her from walking properly the
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    lab thought something might have gone
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    wrong so they cloned Mau again and then
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    again in the end all the dogs were
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    healthy so when they finally made it to
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    Taiwan Li had quite the
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    surprise oh my
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    gosh hello welcome
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    back
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    H we have three dogs we have three M now
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    are you worried about the that you've
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    spent all this money put all this hope
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    in it and then you get three dogs who
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    are I'm sure they'll be very cute dogs
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    but they're not okay if they are just
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    the another three dogs at least I got
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    the answer at least I try my best at at
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    least I respond her asking so there's no
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    [Music]
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    regretsy I I really want to cry because
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    this is the the song that I always s for
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    M for her to release pain so you know I
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    cannot help the
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    tears after meeting the Clones hope sun
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    and moon lie began to feel that Moon
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    reminded him most of Mau AKA Jen Jen
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    she's just like a jingen and those two
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    is super cute but she is just Mak me
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    feel she's jingen
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    [Music]
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    back
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    [Music]
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    oh my
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    God
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    I feel moon is the Incarnation of
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    ginger it was
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    not really yeah okay oh my God made me
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    want to cry I know that you want to cry
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    you can feel feel we can stare at Dan
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    whole day is amazing it's so
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    amazing and and they are also very lucky
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    that everybody they have everybody's
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    love come on go
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    hog thank you guys thank thank
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    you
Tags
  • Kloning
  • Kæledyr
  • Buddhisme
  • Sorg
  • Dyrevelfærd
  • Tropiske planter
  • Nærhed
  • Liv efter døden
  • Familie
  • Hund