Who knows.....maybe the national enquirer will finally have a legitimate
claim when they say that they have found a cat woman. Personally I think
it is disgusting to play around with nature in such ways as cloning and
cross gene injecting.

then you don't even need cloning, your local shelter probably has the
spittin' image sitting in a cage waiting for a new owner right now.

You have good points, but I also wonder whether it might be the case
that the person who is ready to write a check for $50,000 has had just
one cat in her life and thinks that there could never ever be another
kitty who is as wonderful as the one who died, so she is willing to do
everything she can to recapture her "lost love."

People in this NG seem to have (or have had) many kitties and
understand that each kitty is individual and special and wonderful in
his own way, and it is possible to love more than one cat in a
lifetime. The person who has only had one cat does not, perhaps,
understand this. (Actually, I know someone who believes this and
refuses to have another cat for that very reason.)

The person who is paying for cloning is very possibly setting herself
up for heartbreak in a few years if the cloned kitty dies, and I feel
sorry for the woman. I too wish that she would have adopted several
shelter kitties. She could have had years of companionship and delight
with healthy kitties who needed her and a good home, and now she is
missing out.  

What really puzzles me about a cases like this is why doesn't the
woman go down to the closest animal shelter and adopt one of those
cats?   So what if they look different than her previous cat.  They
are all desperately looking for homes.  They are all desperately
looking for love.  They are all desperately looking for some to
adopt them.   (And many are under a death sentence if that home
doesn't come very soon.)  

Every cat i've ever adopted bears absolutely no resemblance to
one of my prior cats.  I've seen no need for it.  Every cat is
different.  

no. im not the one saying cloning causes health issues. this tard needs to
put up or stfu. by the sounds of it, the tard has stfu.

-agent smith

So let me get this straight.....someone will spend $50,000 to buy a
clone of their cat who will only live about half as long as the
original cat.  All this while MILLIONS of cats are put to sleep
because they are unwanted.   And these cats are alot cheaper and
live longer than the cloned cats.

Sounds like someone who has entirely too much money on their hands.

What a waste.

True.

I would point out it's extremely early in the great cloning experiment
but the early indications are they have shorter
life span (about half?)  I would further add it may be many
years before we really understand and comprehend the full
drawbacks from Cloning.   At this point cloning is too
new a phenomenon.    

Maybe the ultimate cost of cloning will be in the unseen side effects,
researchers cloning a cat instead of doing something
needed badly like finding a cure for some disease.    

I would add it could be 10-30 years before we fully understand all
the aspects for cloning.