Bay Area (CA)company wants to make a business out of cloning pets

[Kadie]

Bay Area company wants to make a business out of cloning pets

The Associated Press


Last Updated: August 6, 2004, 11:15:20 AM PDT


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Sausalito company that unveiled the world's first cloned cat nearly three years ago now says it is ready to start filling orders for cloned pets, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Genetic Savings and Clone, a firm that wants to make a business out of cloned pets, now has Tabouli and Baba Ganoush, 8-week-old Bengal kittens who are the world's second and third cat clones.

"All pieces of the puzzle are now in place on the cat side," Genetic Savings CEO Lou Hawthorne told the San Francisco Chronicle.

The firm is being backed by John Sterling, founder of the University of Phoenix, who has already funneled more than $10 million into a project that could require an additional $5 million before it sees a profit.

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[Endangered Specie]

1. Millions of animals gassed in pounds, and they want to CLONE them?

You have got to be kidding me.

[Kagemusha]

2. Arnold did a movie with this sort of thing.

They called it RePet or something.

[kwolf68]

3. This is insane

The animal will only look the same.

It is amazing with all the unwanted, stray animals that could otherwise be wonderful pets, and that could be acquired for little or no money we would concoct a “market” such as this.

I am convinced the human race is completely insane.