First Cloned Cat Has Kittens

(AP)  The world's first cloned cat just became a mother — and she even did it without test tubes.

Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has been taking care of her since.

"They're cute and we thought people ought to know about the birth," "But we're hoping it doesn't cause the same frenzy CC did."

CC got worldwide attention after she was cloned at Texas A&M, which has cloned more species than any institution in the world, including cattle, swine, goats, horses and a deer.

The father is Smokey, a naturally born tabby who was brought in to mate with CC. Two of the kittens take after their mother, while the third has a gray coat like his father.

CC is not the first cloned cat to give birth, Kraemer said. In New Orleans, two cloned wild African cats successfully mated to produce kittens.

[catt42701]

I was unaware of the need for more cats but then I can't read everything. What we need is non-living meat. Like steaks in a petri dish and such. That way we could cut back on livestock, decrease pasture lands to let it go back to its native flora and fauna. It would be nice to have meat without having to kill something. When they can do that then we can truly say there has been an advancement in science and alive things can be alive just for the thrill of it.

[gaye5]

Now I would just like to raise an issue here. A Virginia firm reported a cloned pig litter in April. But the pig research is especially promising, because pigs could become human tissue and organ donors.
Now I have read that some people who have had transplants have discovered that they desire all sorts of things that they previously didn't like, or that they want to do things that they didn't before and in talking to the donors family they have found that, that is what their loved one liked or didn't like, so does this mean that the recipients of pig parts could want to eat whey, and hang out with pigs...ehhehe

[gaye5]

newster1, I sure wasn't pointing a finger at you, as although I go to church sometimes, I know where you are coming from and some religious people make me sick also, so what does it do to those who don't believe..
Of course it is not Gods will that these things should happen, and we cant blame everything on satan, people makes mistakes, they drink and drive killing others in the process etc, that is self that has caused that not satan.. etc
For goodness sake they must know that earthquakes and the likes are the earth moving etc... And you are dead right we don't need the ten commandments, especially if people would treating each other like they want to be treated themselves- again so true, but that also will do no better than the ten commandments as people are full of self, just watch what they watch on TV it is mostly full of self,hate, steal, murder and immorality.
I toooo wish people would quit putting bible quotes on here, they are useless to those who don't believe, what rights do these people think that they have to force our beliefs on others who don't want to hear... However on the subject of cloning, it sure worries me, all sounds to much like hitler all over again, we are manipulated to believe that it is good but where will it stop...spare parts..and as I do believe in God, I dont like it, but I wont shove my belief down your neck.

[gaye5]

newster1 you wrote....some of us refuse to worship some brutal murdering bstard of a god that does what yours does to people and animals.
It is counter productive for all of us to carry on like this. The fact is whether you believe in God or not, if we all followed the ten commandments we would not have any of the worlds problems today, people would be kind and loving towards each other, the fact is that 99% of the worlds population choose to do their own thing, so blaming God because people want to do horrific things is not on. What a cruel God it would be if he took away our free will and controlled us like puppets to jump when he said...
Why is it that people cant think for themselves, people don't want Gods laws, regardless of if it is Buddha, Hindu or the Christian God, they say that God is a myth then when things go wrong they blame the God they don't believe in, come on people...

This cat was cloned by Texas A&M if have not forgotten, now it has occured to me that Robert Gates our new Secretary of Defense is also from Texas A&M and has ties to the middle east, so I wonder what he is going to clone next? Hopefully not Bush

[ecuadoriana]

Rock on, newster1!!

Oh hey, Linfinster, maybe "the devil lurking about" is actually god's will, according to you. So in that case, god the omnipotent has allowed something even stronger than he/she to exist, so where's the omnipotence in that?

Or...maybe god & the devil are in cohoots with each other, sort of like "good cop/bad cop" thing, like mafia brothers, & it's been their plan all along to screw with everybody. Obviously they are buddies- or else one would have wiped the other out long ago.

[amazedd]

Put the blame on St. Helen's.

[grumpas]

Why do people have to bring God into everything??? This is the ignorants way of explaining what they don't understand in this world! Just like Linfinster telling us that the devil lurks behind every corner to lure us into bad things! It's an easy way of explaining why bad things happen to good human's! As far as I can see it's people who believe in religious supersition that are the fools! They are letting myth control their lives!

[nothappyatall]

Headline today: "4 Dead As Storm Slams Northwest "

WHO made this storm exist at all?

Cluebus: your god, the same one you worship, the same one who demands people be stoned to death, that children who curse their parents must also be STONED to death.
Your bible is chock full of violence and dripping with a bloody, gory, gruesome, ghastly and deadly history going back centuries, and this is the krap you want to foist off on other people????
It's time to bankrupt the church as a money grubbing hypocrital mind control entity whose time has long expired, eliminate it off the planet and demolish every last church that stands.

[nothappyatall]

No linfinster- *YOUR* god, *YOUR* bible, one of hundreds that people around the world believe in, all with the same rhetoric that their religion is the only true one. All I know is we are alive we are here, we need to WORK and earn money to buy food, a roof over the head, utilities so we dont freeze to death, clothes etc and THAT my man is the main thing most everyone has to think about every day. MONEY is the only thing that buys what a person needs to survive in the modern world in anything more than a cave in the Amazon jungle.
If you live in the US, you need a house or other place to live, that all costs money, taxes too.

Seems your god forgot such basics to include with the birth package like clothes, food, shelter, heat so we dont freeze to death.

"What would be the purpose of cloning more unwanted animals?"

Unwanted animals? I seriously doubt a $50,000 cat is "unwanted"!

"Why would you blame God for such evil acts? That's very bad. And ignorant of the Bible."

They are called 'acts of GOD' it's even in your insurance policy take a look, it doesnt matter if a tsunami killing 200,000 people was an accident or planned by your god- he either caused it or ALLOWED it to happen- another twisted "lesson" I guess, the one that says dont trust THIS god he kills at random for kicks- the SAME god who demands that some people be STONED TO DEATH for minor "infractions". Ever see someone stoned to death? I have and this is what your god demands!