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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 01-10-2015

Oct 01, 2015 12:00

Gene-edited 'micropigs' to be sold as pets at Chinese institute
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Jeremy Corbyn apparently doesn't understand how the law applies to Scotland
- (tags: Scotland law Labour snp privatisation )
Mercedes, BMW and Peugeot cheating tests to show 50% lower fuel usage than reality.
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Comments 15

andrewducker October 1 2015, 11:40:54 UTC

Here's the study for the obesity research: http://www.obesityresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S1871-403X%2815%2900121-0/abstract

This comic about shelter cats made me cry. drdoug October 1 2015, 11:59:20 UTC

I am typing this with two kittens on my lap, adopted last week from the RSPCA. :)

RE: This comic about shelter cats made me cry. andrewducker October 1 2015, 12:03:00 UTC

Damn you and your low-histamine household!

RE: This comic about shelter cats made me cry. alitheapipkin October 1 2015, 12:05:10 UTC

Married-to-an-allergic-person solidarity sympathy

RE: This comic about shelter cats made me cry. andrewducker October 1 2015, 12:15:50 UTC

I have hopes for Cat-Spire. And a dog.

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bookzombie October 1 2015, 12:23:22 UTC

Dammit. Should not have read cartoons about shelter cats just before having a meeting with external suppliers....*sniff*

bookzombie October 1 2015, 12:26:10 UTC

Paws (pun intended!) to note that all but one of our cats have been 'rescues' of one kind or another (including two we took on when the owners decided to emigrate and 'couldn't' take the cats with them.

andrewducker October 1 2015, 15:48:05 UTC

Yeah. I think I'd rather have a rescue pet, where possible.

(Sadly nearly all the dogs I see in rescue places are marked as "not suitable for children")

momentsmusicaux October 1 2015, 15:21:21 UTC

> “It's questionable whether we should impact the life, health and well-being of other animal species on this planet light-heartedly,” says geneticist Jens Boch at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.

I don't disagree with him, but we do that already -- breeds of cat and dog that couldn't survive in the wild, for instance, because they're too small or big or too covered in hair, or who have genetic defects due to inbreeding.

andrewducker October 1 2015, 15:49:02 UTC

Yup, totally. I'm not convinced that this is entirely worse than what we already do.

(Mind you, that's another reason I'd rather actually have a mutt.)

momentsmusicaux October 1 2015, 16:02:58 UTC

I want one of those domesticated foxes they've been breeding in Russia!