Clone your cat for only $50,000 !!

[Tmy]

This cloing stuff is getting serious. I wonder if the cats will hold up or turn into genetic disease bags.

Of cousre I wouldnt mind perpetually cloning my cat, "Knox the Czar of Mousers"!! The current Knox has a bionic leg thanx to his street crossing recklessness.

Fixing him wanst cheap, Those vets have a good scam going on.

At play with firm's clone kittens

A US company offering a pet cloning service has successfully cloned two cats: Tabouli and Baba Ganoush. BBC News Online's Maggie Shiels is the first British journalist to see them. Here, she tells of meeting the copy cats.

Genetic Savings and Clone (GSC), which is based in Sausalito, just north of San Francisco, is the world's first firm to go commercial and offer the public the chance to clone their cats and dogs.

With several hundred customers already on the books banking their dogs' DNA with the company, Mr Hawthorne is confident that that could happen as early as the beginning of next year

 

[Jocko]

I, for one, am glad they're finally addressing the nationwide cat shortage we're all suffering from. That, and finding new ways to extracting money from the incredibly vain and over-funded.

Now if only they could get to work on repopulating cockroaches and rats in Chicago subways, we'll all have a better world to live in.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Wow, $50,000? For prospective cloned cat customers, I'm willing to provide a half-clone of your beloved pet for only $25,000.

The process works by having genetic material from your cat (don't worry, the process does not hurt the cat. Quite the opposite, in fact) and placed within a state-of-the-art biological incubation device. (In the case of female cats, the half-clones will require some time with their original at this stage.) After a few weeks, the complicated process of creating new life is complete, and the result is a new cat with exactly half the genetic material of your original cat! The process is so efficient, that it's actually quite easy to make several half-clones at once. They come out as much younger than the original, and will live a regular cat life-span. Best of all, there won't be any problems with copying those half-clones themselves when they are older.

So bring your checkbook and sign up to get some half-clones of your beloved cat today. (Sadly, the process does NOT work on cats who have been spayed or neutered.)

 

[aerocontrols]

Please allow me to take this opportunity to glower and frown upon the very idea of spending $50,000 on an animal.

I disapprove.

MattJ

 

[Meadmaker]

I remember a few years back seeing a picture of the first cloned cat, and the source of the cloning material. I was glad to see that the two cats didn't look very much alike. The coat of the clone was not the same color as the source cat. The article noted that other factors besides genetics determine cat coat color.

I was glad to see it, because I thought it would be less likely that people would shell out big bucks for a copy of Fluffy.

Count me in on half-clones, but at less than 25,000, thanks.

 

[The Fool]

Please allow me to take this opportunity to glower and frown upon the very idea of spending $50,000 on an animal.

I disapprove.

MattJ

Unless its a racehorse..

 

[WildCat]

Now if only they could get to work on repopulating cockroaches and rats in Chicago subways, we'll all have a better world to live in.

From what I've seen, it's already being taken care of.

 

[Jocko]

Please allow me to take this opportunity to glower and frown upon the very idea of spending $50,000 on an animal.

I disapprove.

MattJ

Unless it's a very, VERY tasty animal. Like something the size of a cow, but it's all bacon. You know, something practical like that.

 

[CFLarsen]

Why would you want to clone a cat? You might get the same looks, but you won't get the same behavior. Your cuddly cat's clone can become a hissy-fit prone cat.

I like the way my three cats look, but it's their personalities I love.

Clone Catherina Zeta-Jones or Jessica Alba instead - I mean, who wants them for their personalities?