Hypo-allergenic Cats Followup
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"The ALLERCA GD cat comes in all coat colors and patterns." Yes, this site is a little creepy. I'd consider paying real money for a genuinely hypoallergenic cat, but it would be at least an order of magnitude less than that.
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Immature, perhaps, but it's interesting that the scientist's step-father was the one who came up with the idea of cloning the dog, the mom had already adopted a puppy and wasn't done grieving the loss of the first one. It's not clear to me the mother ever wanted the clone - like it was a well-intentioned gift with bad results.
I don't know that I'd be able to deal with a clone of a pet I wasn't finished grieving.
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I admit that when I think of the Menace dying (sigh -- he seems so thin and frail these days, though no kinder for all that), the idea of getting a similar cat, even a similarly COLORED cat, bothers me. I think I would be very bothered at the idea of someone cloning a dearly departed pet. (Yes, nobody, not even me, would ever want two of Menace, but I mean in general. :) )
And yet ljedi reports that most of their normally unadoptable rescue cats tend to go to people who saw them on the website and say, "She looks JUST LIKE my beloved Fluffy!" And then the potential owners don't care about the behavior or health problems; they just want the shadow of the lost pet back. I admit that I don't get it, but I'm sure those are also the kind of people who would want to clone a pet.
Would you ever think of cloning a dearly departed pet?
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I'm not sure I understand the way you see grieving. I take the strong desire to replace a pet with a copy as close as possible to the original as a sign that grief is still fresh and hasn't been processed. I'd think that if you were done grieving, you'd look for a pet that's a good pet on its own merits.
I don't think I'd want a similar-colored pet after losing one, unless it was physically dissimilar enough (ie likely no yellow lab following yellow lab) that there was no mistaking them for each other.
Yeah, this is how I feel.
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I'm not sure I understand the way you see grieving. I take the strong desire to replace a pet with a copy as close as possible to the original as a sign that grief is still fresh and hasn't been processed. I'd think that if you were done grieving, you'd look for a pet that's a good pet on its own merits.
Probably.
However, I'm just thinking aloud there, guessing and not stating firm convictions - that was why I was wondering if ljedi had any guesstimates of time-lines since pet-death to new adoption for that sub-set of people who wanted one just like the old one. I don't really grok that kind of thinking, so it's not clear to me whether it's simply that the physical resemblance is sort of a comforting reminder of their past pet or what.
You yourself said that they don't care about behavior, so it's not clear that simply wanting a pet that looks like the old one is equivalent to wanting a clone that looks and behaves like the old one.
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I think wanting a clone of your pet is a more extreme example of the same behavior. And it seems to me that it's one doomed to failure. A clone still isn't your pet with a second life. Genetics are only part of the picture. It will inevitably become its own creature.
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Nod. It's an interesting phenomenon.
I do definitely agree that the clone thing doomed to failure for exactly those reasons. It's really sad the mom didn't even seem to see it as a "real dog."
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