Cloning. I'm surprised I haven't touched on this earlier. The cloning-your-pets thing puts dumb people at their finest.
Why clone? I love my animals. I will be devastated when they die. But it's a pet's personality that makes them great, and that doesn't come packaged in DNA. Personality is a result of life-experiences. Just like with us humans, our lives are what shape us into what we are.
Take two cats, genetically identical. Drop one off in Gary, Indiana. Drop the other off in Evanston, Illinois. Wait a few years. Take both cats from the environment in which they grew up. Study them. There's no question that those genetically identical animals will be nothing alike. If your precious Evanston kitty dies, a clone won't replace her. This is kind of an extreme example, because your clone kitty probably wouldn't be a Gary cat, but the point is that even your kitty and a cloned counterpart will have different life experiences and will therefore not be the same at all.
You can clone your cat and she'll look just like your Schnookums, but she won't be Schnookums. When Schnookums dies, Schnookums dies. Cloning won't bring that cat back. So why spend a fortune for a cat you know nothing about (other than their appearance) when you can pick up a cat that actually needs you, and will appreciate you?
If you ask me, cloning is for people that can't accept that death is a part of life. People die, pets die, it hurts, you move on, you meet new people, new animals, and although there'll never be another Schnookums, there will be a Snowball. So deal with it. Snowball will be great. Geez, just give Snowball a chance!
Posted by ause0007 at May 31, 2005 5:00 PMCloning? Oh yes........ Speaking of crazy things, you should maybe find out more about people mummy-fying their pets after they die. Or what is that freaky thing they do where they preserve their pets in perfect condition after they die...would you do that?
Posted by: Sylvie Thao at May 31, 2005 5:09 PMPet mummies?! What?! That's amazing! People are so dumb! Don't worry, I will definitely be looking into this now. And by "freaky thing," do you mean taxidermy? Stuff Schnookums and put her up top on the mantel? hahahaha I HATE PEOPLE.
Posted by: Sarah at May 31, 2005 8:12 PMFinally there is someone talking some sense regarding pets, maybe hell has frozen over.
Posted by: Kyle C. at May 31, 2005 9:45 PM"haha I hate people!" haha, you are so hilarious. Yes, the taxidermy thing is what I was talking about, separate from the mummy thing though! Yes I saw this special from a few years ago, they actually took out organs and then wrapped the pets in cloth or something like mummies....and had thier own little tomb. Oh boy.
Posted by: Sylvie Thao at June 1, 2005 3:20 PM