Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
Cloned pets are possible, but remember that few labs are going to go ahead without the express permission of the owner. Trying to get around that would require getting some viable genetic material without the owner knowing, which is tricky to say the least. Lab fees are going to be pricey to begin with, and owners will ask a lot to license prime genetic material if they're willing to at all. So I don't see mass-cloned pets being a thing.
First hit on duckduckgo was that the US spends $60 billion a year on pets, and with falling population growth I'd expect a similar number in the EU and any other wealthy country with relatively few children. Of course expecting a person to fork over the big bucks on a "designer pet" assumes that either they've had pets before (and understand just how much they cost) and/or they are sufficiently fashionable to justify forking over big bucks to keep up with the Joneses.