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Trivial Pursuits => Science & Nature => Topic started by: side_show on July 28, 2010, 06:50:01 pm
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My hubby and I occasionally joke that we would like to clone our pets. Seems like that option is not as close as I once thought it was. (http://www.bioarts.com/press_release/ba09_09_09.htm) Fascinating press release though.
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Somehow I missed that. Very interesting.
As someone who's married to one of a pair of identical twins, I've never been tempted to clone my pets.
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One clone of a male donor was actually born female (we still have no good explanation for how that happened).
For every dog cloned by RNL in the future, it’s likely that a dozen or more will be slaughtered for food as a direct result.
I dunno... is there anything so terrible about eating dogs?
Hell we'll need to be eating humans soon enough if we don't stop having so many kids...
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I dunno... is there anything so terrible about eating dogs?
It's immoral to eat cute animals.
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A far more bizarre way of assuring (http://www.vipfibers.com/) you can enjoy your pet for years to come. As one of our cats is a total sock theif, I would consider doing this as a tribute to him... but then again... no.
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I am sure I posted this before.
If anybody here ever decides to have yarn spun from a pet, I hereby volunteer my knitting skills to provide you with kitty socks or pug mittens or whatever. I'm both fascinated and repulsed by this idea, but I could not pass up an opportunity to say I've knitted with cat or dog fiber.
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I am sure I posted this before.
If anybody here ever decides to have yarn spun from a pet, I hereby volunteer my knitting skills to provide you with kitty socks or pug mittens or whatever. I'm both fascinated and repulsed by this idea, but I could not pass up an opportunity to say I've knitted with cat or dog fiber.
So I have these guinea pigs, when one crokes, do I just mail you the thing in a box?
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I think for that you need someone that tans hides, not someone who knits.
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No, you should brush it while it's alive and mail its fur to someone who spins.
I do not spin.
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a friend of mine from HS makes a living with her spinning wheel. i can maybe get you's a discount.
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Discount pet fur yarn, and someone who makes a living via the use of her spinning wheel. There are two things I have had trouble imagining.
You're right JL. I did post something about cat fur wool, or something similar at some time in the past. Damned if the serch function isn't helping matters.
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I have been collecting dog fur from my RL plushie for use in oil booms. If that ends up being unnecessary, I will have cubic feet of pure white 4" fur. It begs to be used for spinning & knitting.
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Where did you plan on sending your bushel of fur? Because I just had a mental image of you shoving hair in an envelope and just writing "LOUISIANA" on it.
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this thread blew my mind. Spinning pet hair, oil absorbing booms. wow.
I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress recently, so sure, I can imagine reusing pet fur if you lived in an artificial terrarium on the moon.
It's certainly the ecologically progressive and culturally progressive thing to do - recycle your pet fur. That and shoot everyone at your workplace.
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There's a "grassroots" organization that had coordinated with pet groomers and vets in a couple metro areas (mine is one of them) to get pet fur for making booms. Supply overwhelmed their boom-making capabilities and their warehouse(s?) in LA filled up, so they asked people to stem the tide for a bit. I haven't gotten an email from them saying whether they're accepting donations again (you were supposed to take your fur to a local vet or groomer to add to their shipment).
Edit: The org is Matter of Trust (http://www.matteroftrust.org)and from the pics on their site it looks like their effort is legit (whether its effective....)
(http://www.matteroftrust.org/gulf7/PBB_0047.jpg)
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I have two friends who are hairdressers who were also collecting hair for booms. Don't know if it's the same organization or not. I also heard a news report saying that hair was not absorbent enough and they were going to discontinue using it.