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WildIrish
10-12-2006, 02:50 PM
there's no demand for this (http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=AP&Date=20061011&ID=6096335)? :confused:
osuche
10-12-2006, 02:52 PM
I want to clone Edgar Allen Poe's black cat :yikes:

$50 K is a small price to pay!
WildIrish
10-12-2006, 02:57 PM
$50 K is a small price to pay!


That tops the price of a $32,000 boob squeeze. :p
osuche
10-12-2006, 03:16 PM
Note...I originally wanted to clone something from Stephen King....but I knew Aqua would correct me to I changed the post.


PF immediately chose to take his cookies and go home. :p
WildIrish
10-12-2006, 03:22 PM
Note...I originally wanted to clone something from Stephen King....but I knew Aqua would correct me to I changed the post.


PF immediately chose to take his cookies and go home. :p

:huh:



How dare you change pussies in mid clone!
PantyFanatic
10-12-2006, 03:56 PM
It is HER cookie I want to take home. :slurp:
Fangtasia
10-13-2006, 06:03 PM
No more cloned pussies eh *L*
scotzoidman
10-13-2006, 11:55 PM
Why pay $50K for a cloned pussy when so many are begging to be taken home & loved?
Oldfart
10-14-2006, 12:52 AM
And a lot of them are much, much cheaper.
dicksbro
10-14-2006, 02:39 AM
Now, if it had been puss and boots with a little head ... oh, nevermind.
Loulabelle
10-14-2006, 02:45 AM
When our cat went missing this summer, I was in such an emotional state I think I'd have gladly cloned him, but that wouldn't have taken the pain away from knowing that he was still out there somewhere possibly suffering.

Thankfully he came back after a week, thin and tired but otherwise unharmed - we think he must have been trapped in someone's garage or shed or something.
scotzoidman
10-14-2006, 11:05 PM
And a lot of them are much, much cheaper.
Unless you go out & pick some stray pussy that hasn't had all the required shots...
butterflybabybb
10-14-2006, 11:07 PM
there's no demand for this (http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=AP&Date=20061011&ID=6096335)? :confused:


If they were cloning you, I could see a demand........
scotzoidman
10-14-2006, 11:10 PM
Truth be told, while I do miss most of the pets I've had, it would not be same having a clone of any of them...part of the fun is the different personalities one finds when one shares one's home with a series of domesticated animals...
Loulabelle
10-15-2006, 05:06 AM
That's true Scotz although when they are snatched away from you in the prime of their lives, you can see the appeal.

We lost an adorable cat aged just 4 years old very suddenly and without explanation. I still struggle to think about him without getting upset. His personality was just so special, everyone who ever met him fell in love with him, even those people who didn't like cats.

I've lost a few pets over the years, as you do, but his loss still hurts the most as our time with him was so short. The only trouble is, I'm not sure cloning another version of him would be a healthy way of dealing with grief.
jseal
10-15-2006, 05:23 AM
I wonder if cloning would recreate the animal’s personality – its uniqueness?
Loulabelle
10-15-2006, 07:35 AM
Well you've hit on the old nature/nurture question there jseal....certainly it has been proven with cats that their 'friendliness' has genetic links as studies have proven that kittens fathered by a 'people-friendly' tom usually inherit this trait, despite the fact that tom cats rarely hang around to nurture and raise their offspring.

As for other aspects of personality, who can say? From a personal point of view, the cats I've had have always been raised with litter mates or another kitten, which is something you'd not be able to recreate were you to clone the animal. I imagine a clone of one of mine would have a very different relationship with the surviving older cat than it would have if they'd been raised together from kittens.
jseal
10-15-2006, 08:22 AM
... the cats I've had have always been raised with litter mates or another kitten, which is something you'd not be able to recreate were you to clone the animal ...
Loulabelle,

Yes mam. That’s what I was approaching. If identical human twins who are raised apart, whose nurture is the different, develop distinct personalities, why would one expect other animals to be different? As the context within which the cloned cats were raised would be different, I would expect that the cloned would be a “different” cat from the parent.
WildIrish
10-16-2006, 10:53 AM
If they were cloning you, I could see a demand........



I'm wonderful!






In very small doses. :roflmao:
scotzoidman
10-17-2006, 12:32 AM
That's true Scotz although when they are snatched away from you in the prime of their lives, you can see the appeal.

We lost an adorable cat aged just 4 years old very suddenly and without explanation. I still struggle to think about him without getting upset. His personality was just so special, everyone who ever met him fell in love with him, even those people who didn't like cats.

I've lost a few pets over the years, as you do, but his loss still hurts the most as our time with him was so short. The only trouble is, I'm not sure cloning another version of him would be a healthy way of dealing with grief.
Exactly my point...I am sad for the loss, grateful for whatever time I had with them...but I would no more want a clone of a pet than I would want to have a clone of a family member lost too soon...eeesh, just the thought is kinda creeping me out...

& in my own smartass way, in my other post I was suggesting that with too many homeless animals out there already, it seems so perverse to spend so much money & waste good resources to make more...