What affects us affects cats
Here are my thoughts in the form of a letter to the editor of The Times where today there is an article on cloning pets. I have always felt strongly that cloning pets is an act of arrogant self-indulgence with little concern for animal welfare. Cloning Pets: An Act Against Nature and Compassion Sir, …
We are told that dogs and cats are increasingly being cloned because their owners refuse to let them go. They want to continue their relationship with their beloved companion animal. This is entirely understandable. You don’t want to let go something that brings you pleasure. It is a reflection of the deep relationships that …
This is a picture of a cloned jungle cat according to China Daily. The online newspaper reports that researchers at Qingdao Agricultural University in Shandong Province succeeded in cloning a “big cat” for the first time. The first point to make is that the jungle cat is not a big cat but a small …
At this abandoned house there are two of each cat by which I mean there are two cats of each coat and body type in this picture. There are two tabby cats, two black-and-white cats and two black cats and in each case the one is an almost mirror image of the other. This …
This follow-up page covers health and other issues of cloned mammals and follows Ruth’s article questioning whether people should clone their cat, even if they could afford it. I think it is useful to briefly look at the difficulties of cloning cats. This of course is ignoring the seeming impossibility of cloning a cat’s …
It’s in the news today, that Rebecca Smith a British woman, won a competition to have her pet cloned and she now has Minnie Winnie a clone of her 12 year old dachshund Winnie. This set me thinking about the cloning of animals and doing a PoC search I found this article Michael wrote …
The only reason why scientists at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species (ACRES) are engaged in failed attempts at cloning small wild cat species (at the expense of the cats who are kept in cages etc.), is because people in general are basically killing off the wild cat species in the wild …
Twin Cats – Natural duplication – photo by © Giorgio (Flickr) Cat cloning is doomed to everlasting failure because it is trying to alter nature, which is immutable. This is a discussion on this difficult subject. Let me say right away that I believe that the majority of people disagree with cloning cats. It …
