While I'm sure that genetics plays a large role in the disposition of one's pet, I truly believe that most of your loved one's characteristics come from the "formative" years of it's life. What were the influences during your cat or dog's childhood?
So, as I've reported here several times past, there are companies out there willing to clone your cat. From CBS News:
Kittens Tabouli and Baba Ganoush aren't twins, they're clones, the products of a pet-cloning laboratory. CEO Lou Hawthorne says there's a fortune to be made copying cats.
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"It's a multibillion-dollar business waiting to happen," Hawthorne said.Hawthorne's company, Genetic Savings & Clone, claims it has a waiting list of those ready to pay $50,000 to clone a beloved cat. Dogs will cost more, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.
"We have a money-back guarantee that the clone will be healthy and that it will have a very high degree of physical resemblance," Hawthorne said.
It won't be the same cat. Or dog.
Might I suggest that instead of trying to duplicate your original, you instead (while it's alive) love and cherish that original as much as you can. And when -- as, unfortunately they all must -- they pass on, cherish their memories and when you're ready, head-on down to the local animal shelter and find a new, totally different, loving cat or dog. And instead of trying to "compare" him or her to your recently deceased, fall in love with a whole new set of traits in a deserving animal starving for love and affection.
To hell with clones. And anyone who would actually spend 50 grand to try to duplicate an animal has deprived other, needy and wanting animals of (besides a lot of supportive money for the shelter that has taken them in,) love and a good home-life.
