Cat Cloning c/d?

On the other hand, I see nothing terrible with just having an infinite supply of genetically identical kittens. Get a new one each year, extra cute.

if this is the real question, i see no reason why someone shouldn't be allowed to spend $50K on getting chemo or dialysis for their old cat as opposed to say, i dunno, a hummer H2 or speedboat.

besides, i have had trouble telling my cat from other orange tabbys in my neighborhood. i don't know why i'd need a clone to replace him.

So, basically, what's the point?

PLUS, why breed/clone when bajillions of cats die in shelters?

good point. Dolly was not the first cloned mammal. she was not even the first sheep cloned by the Roslin Institute. Dolly was merely the first successful birth of a sheep cloned using adult genetic material. The fact that she was cloned from a cell of a 3 year old sheep is believed to be the reason behind her premature ageing.

Incidentally Morag, one of the first 2 sheep cloned by the Roslin Institute was stuffed and is now in a glass case in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. She shares her case with Dolly's fleece. Somehow I found this unbelievably sad - Morag was there complete, but all that was left of Dolly was a heap of wool!

absolutely, pigmentation is chemical and is determined by environmental factors both in utero and whilst the cat is growing. No reason why the cloned cat will be the same or even a similar colour to the cat it was cloned from.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7542338.stm

Crazy lady clones her dead dog. Creepy.

Booger?

Yeah, I know.

Send in the Cl(oh forget it)

Thank God the scientists have delivered us from the great puppy shortage.

Again, people can do as they wish, but paying that kind of money seems sickly fetishistic to me, especially since much of a pet's personality will stem from their experiences as a wee-un. Rescuing a cat off the street or a dog from the pound that subsequently adores you seems a far better tribute to a loving relationship than worrying about the specific genetics of the beast.

The scientific advancement behind it all is more important than the individual story, IMHO. (cue Godwin's law, probably, but that's not what I mean)

This story took a weird twist eh?
Now she has her pit bull cloned. But once she manacled a Mormon for sex

Hence the band the Joyce McKinney Experience I guess.

http://www.bosstuneage.com/communities/2/004/006/275/872/images/4520057710.jpg

http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/mckinney.jpg

Quite an amusing detail from the Daily Mail story on this:

McKinney met the similarly bailed May and the pair fled to Canada, using false passports and disguised as deaf-mute mime artistes.

Barbra is
a dog cloner
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a dog cloner
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http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/barbra-streisand-breaks-silence-on-dog-cloning.html