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Cat Organ Transplants

Posted by michael on from the organlegging dept.

sophie baines writes "Vets have given their approval for cats to have kidney transplants in the UK-despite ethical concerns about the procedure. Liverpool University is believed to be one of the few veterinary teaching centres around the country to have the advanced specialist equipment needed to carry out the operation."

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  1. What about my dog? by zudo · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's discrimination that is

  2. Re:Where do you get the replacement parts? by Cy+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    forget genetic engineering... make your dream cat frankenstein style

    'cat' already means to merge two entities together, so I guess this operation can be summed up as:

    cat Cat1 Kidney(Cat2) ???

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  3. Re:Actually... by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    She's performed the procedure several times.

    Oh my god! What's wrong with your cat?
    Nothing, my cat is fine.
    What are those lumps all over it?!?!
    Oh, those are kidneys. I've transplanted several kidneys into it, and I ran out of room in the usual places.

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  4. Flight Com! I can't hold it! by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steve Austin. Astronaut. A cat barely alive.

    Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic cat. Steve Austin will be that cat. Better than he was before. Better ... stronger ... faster.

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