Americans strongly disapprove of pet cloning, and very consistently oppose animal cloning in general, even to reestablished endangered, or revive extinct, species.

Pet Cloning Poll Summary

The Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) poll summary was prepared for the American Anti-Vivisection Society, and contains fairly detailed demographic breakdowns. It is the only available poll that specifically addresses the issue of genetically modified (as distinguished from cloned) pets, and shows that this is even more unpopular, with 84% opposing it and only 12% approving it.

The 2001 and 2002 Fox polls asked about cloning "a pet dog or cat." The same polls, and 1997 and 1998 Fox polls, also asked about cloning endangered species, and to reintroduce extinct species, as well as livestock, with somewhat less dramatic (but overall similar and consistent) results.

Endangered Species, Extinct Species and Livestock Poll Summary

The 2002 Gallup poll also asked about endangered species, with similar results: 38% approving, 58% disapproving and 4% with no opinion.

Animal cloning in general is unpopular, as the following summary shows. The 2002–10 Gallup polls, and a 1997 CNN/Time poll, asked whether animal cloning was "morally acceptable" or "morally wrong." The 2001 Gallup poll asked whether it "should or should not be allowed." ABC asked if it should be "legal" or "illegal." The 2001 Time/CNN poll asked if it was "a good idea or a bad idea." The 2002 GPPC (Genetics and Public Policy Center) poll asked for approval/disapproval of "scientists working on ways to clone animals."

Animal Cloning Poll Summary

In April/May 1999, a Pew survey asked whether the cloning of a sheep had been a change for the better (15%), a change for the worse (49%), or had not made much difference (23%); 13% did not know or refused to answer.

There are, however, some demographic groups that tend to support animal cloning for research purposes, though not as pets. According to the 2001 Gallup and ABC polls, these include those with postgraduate education and those earning above $75,000. Religious people tended to be more opposed than the non-religious. There was also a substantial gender gap, with women strongly opposed to animal cloning (71-25 % in the ABC poll, 74% opposed in the Gallup), and men almost evenly split.

The ORC data on cloning companion animals also shows a gender difference, but notably smaller: 86% of women oppose pet cloning, as do 74% of men. On allowing companies to genetically engineer pets, opposition is even higher — 89% of women and 78% of men oppose this, as do over 80% of people in every age bracket and with every level of educational attainment.