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Project Copycat Clones A Cat
texchanchan writes: "'Copying' is not limited to other people's proprietary files. Soon you'll be able to 'share' their prize Siamese. From Yahoo news: "A domestic cat was cloned late last year in a Texas A&M University research program called CopyCat....Cloning research at the university has been funded with more than $3.5 million in investments from John Sperling, an 81-year-old financier who formed Genetic Savings & Clone Inc."
(These Texans know how to name things, too.)"
The article says it takes over 100 tries to get one cat pregnant?
That's nothing. Malda has tried thousands of times.
Like we even need more cats... my local Humane Society is overloaded with these things and here these people are making more?
I do not have a signature
The Humane Society of the United States opposes pet cloning, the Journal said, because of the danger of overpopulation.
Every year, tens of millions of cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens are 'put to sleep'.
'Put to sleep' implies the use of euthenasia drugs, giving animals a fairly quick painless death. In fact, this happens only in context of a vetrenary office. In pounds and animal shelter, animals are slaughtered by putting them in a vacumn chamber.
If you take anything other than a kitten or a puppy, you are almost certainly condeming that animal to death by explosive decompression. Sounds fun, huh?
Cloning has many, many wonderful possibilities. The idea that skin or organs could be cloned for injured people is a neat thing... a development that could possibly save lives.
For everyone out there who thinks it would be cool to clone an animal as a pet or a service animal when another could just as easily be adopted from a local pound, please remember the terrified cat or dog who doesn't understand why she's being tortured to death.
It's been said so often that it's a joke, but spaying and neutering your pets isn't an option if you care about them at all. You're preventing more domestic animals from suffering a grisly, grisly fate.
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We already have deer season, bear season, elk season. Why not have kitty season and puppy season? Stalking strays through the urban wilderness with a 22-caliber air rifle loaded with darts would be a new challenge for the hunters - and they wouldn't even have to travel!