Posted on August 17, 2009 by Nancy Houser

"Kotpies -- first successful cat-dog live cloning hybrid."

More and more we are seeing Mother Nature being tampered with in un-natural ways, scientific laboratories full of mistakes of nature that are either destroyed or abandoned. The above cat-dog cloning hybrid photograph is named “Kotpies”, the Polish word meaning “cat dog” from lead scientist Kwiecien Zywnosci.

The first successful live cloning of a cat and dog hybrid, Kotpies was developed through the joint effort of geneticists at the Cornell University Labs, UC Davis and New Zealand’s Massey University of Veterinary Medicine. (via “The Cat’s Meow“). Below are some digital manipulations of this particular hybrid from The Cat’s Meow blog. Do not enjoy!

Instead,  weep where science is developing a new genetic line of pets, in a world today where shelters are already overly-full and animals are being put down at a rapid rate due to lack of homes, lack of caring, and lack of resources to care for them. This is not cool. This is not cute. This is part of a harsh world where they are already doing the same thing with humans. Animals are just a small beginning in the media’s eye.

(For those who have not visited the original website, this was put up as an April Fool’s Joke. We are not treating it as a joke, but as a serious matter due to the massive cloning going on right now due to the expense of the animals.)

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Wikipedia on “Animal Euthanization“:

Out of 1,000 shelters responding to a 1997 survey conducted by the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy, 2.7 million of 5.3 million animals or 64% were euthanized. 56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter shelters were euthanized. 15% of dogs and 2% of cats were reunited with their owners; 25% of dogs and 24% of cats were adopted. The majority of these are euthanized at animal shelters, typically after a standard period of time (ranging from several days to several weeks for unclaimed stray animals). The American Humane Association uses these numbers to estimate that currently 9.6 million animals are euthanized in the United States every year. The AHA does not make clear if or how it accounts for possible changes in euthanization rates that may have occurred since 1997.

(A Special Thank You to the CatsMeowBlog.com for the photographs)

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