Cloned dog meets "twin"

[Catherine]

The dogs owner won a contest to have her dog Winnie cloned. Mini Winnie is the result.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-new...ic-4040693

http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/12/beautiful-...e-4829682/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-twin.html

This is a complex issue. With so many dogs needing homes do we really need to clone them?

Didn't Dolly the cloned sheep die young?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

A cloned animal is a genetic replica of another animal, but it is not that other animal. Even pre-birth influences would not be the same.
The owner would be a stranger to the clone at first even if the "parent/twin" was a beloved pet.

Do we really need cloning of any creature? Is it a good idea?
I could see trying to save a valuable mutation that would benefit us all, but there are natural ways of doing that.

Just because we can do it doesn't mean we should.
I have always been a little uneasy about cloning. It seems like a lot of resources tied up in something that has questionable results.

Mini Winnie is a cute puppy though.