[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
sorry to hear Brad that it’s still rough.
I sit here and wait for her to poke her head around the corner, or walk by her room and see her lying in her bed.
Every night when I say night to our other dog, I say night to Gracie as well.[/quote]
It really is like losing a kid when they’re such a big part of your life, so sad for both you guys right now.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
My dog passed away on Halloween this last year. She’s been gone close to 2.5 months.
I’m still trimming pieces of steak and whistling for her.
I’m still waking up and wandering toward the back yard and looking for her to be behind me so we can take our morning piss together by the plum tree.
I’m still snapping my fingers for her to hop in the back of my truck when I run errands.
I’m still dropping my backpack in my recliner real quick when I get home and bracing for her to jump on me.
This doesn’t happen every day but it still happens, and for that second when I remember she’s not here my heart bottoms out and I ache in the chest.
But there is no way I would ever clone her, it wouldn’t be the same dog, no matter what.[/quote]
That’s so sad.
Do you have a pic of her we can see?
I’d clone Cat.
See, we sort of ‘acquired’ Cat in the usual stray cat taken-in kind of way, but this is the fucking weirdest cat I’ve ever encountered. He acts much more like a dog.
So I’d clone him to see if his peculiarity is in fact physiological, ie mental retardation, or simply a result of his upbringing as a semi-wild animal.
I need to know.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
I’d clone Cat.
See, we sort of ‘acquired’ Cat in the usual stray cat taken-in kind of way, but this is the fucking weirdest cat I’ve ever encountered. He acts much more like a dog.
So I’d clone him to see if his peculiarity is in fact physiological, ie mental retardation, or simply a result of his upbringing as a semi-wild animal.
I need to know.[/quote]
I think it may be down to the personalities of the owners, personally. My cats follow us around the house and run around with sticks in their mouths, a bit like a dog too.
I’d like to get a dog, but it’s not a good idea right now.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
I’d clone Cat.
See, we sort of ‘acquired’ Cat in the usual stray cat taken-in kind of way, but this is the fucking weirdest cat I’ve ever encountered. He acts much more like a dog.
So I’d clone him to see if his peculiarity is in fact physiological, ie mental retardation, or simply a result of his upbringing as a semi-wild animal.
I need to know.[/quote]
I think it may be down to the personalities of the owners, personally. My cats follow us around the house and run around with sticks in their mouths, a bit like a dog too.
I’d like to get a dog, but it’s not a good idea right now.[/quote]
Another possibility is that a day-long catnip binge(he located the bag) somehow activated a latent psychological disorder.
I need to clones to run experiments.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
I’d clone Cat.
See, we sort of ‘acquired’ Cat in the usual stray cat taken-in kind of way, but this is the fucking weirdest cat I’ve ever encountered. He acts much more like a dog.
So I’d clone him to see if his peculiarity is in fact physiological, ie mental retardation, or simply a result of his upbringing as a semi-wild animal.
I need to know.[/quote]
I think it may be down to the personalities of the owners, personally. My cats follow us around the house and run around with sticks in their mouths, a bit like a dog too.
I’d like to get a dog, but it’s not a good idea right now.[/quote]
This.
I lost my little buddy Fenris last year and that cat thought he was a dog. He met me at the dog every day after work for 15 years. He followed me where every I went and would fetch things I threw.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
My dog passed away on Halloween this last year. She’s been gone close to 2.5 months.
I’m still trimming pieces of steak and whistling for her.
I’m still waking up and wandering toward the back yard and looking for her to be behind me so we can take our morning piss together by the plum tree.
I’m still snapping my fingers for her to hop in the back of my truck when I run errands.
I’m still dropping my backpack in my recliner real quick when I get home and bracing for her to jump on me.
This doesn’t happen every day but it still happens, and for that second when I remember she’s not here my heart bottoms out and I ache in the chest.
But there is no way I would ever clone her, it wouldn’t be the same dog, no matter what.[/quote]
Sorry to hear… while it does get a bit better, you never stop missing them. When my older dog passed in '07, for the next couple of months, each time I would grab a leash, my younger one would run barking into my bedroom to let him know we were going to go for a walk. I would tear up every time.
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there are so many other dogs that need homes and will be great dogs, No, i wouldnt clone my dog…
also, a clone will never have the same life experiances and not be the same
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
My dog passed away on Halloween this last year. She’s been gone close to 2.5 months.
I’m still trimming pieces of steak and whistling for her.
I’m still waking up and wandering toward the back yard and looking for her to be behind me so we can take our morning piss together by the plum tree.
I’m still snapping my fingers for her to hop in the back of my truck when I run errands.
I’m still dropping my backpack in my recliner real quick when I get home and bracing for her to jump on me.
This doesn’t happen every day but it still happens, and for that second when I remember she’s not here my heart bottoms out and I ache in the chest.
But there is no way I would ever clone her, it wouldn’t be the same dog, no matter what.[/quote]
That’s so sad.
Do you have a pic of her we can see?[/quote]
Sure Nards, here she is from about a year ago
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
I’d clone Cat.
See, we sort of ‘acquired’ Cat in the usual stray cat taken-in kind of way, but this is the fucking weirdest cat I’ve ever encountered. He acts much more like a dog.
So I’d clone him to see if his peculiarity is in fact physiological, ie mental retardation, or simply a result of his upbringing as a semi-wild animal.
I need to know.[/quote]
I think it may be down to the personalities of the owners, personally. My cats follow us around the house and run around with sticks in their mouths, a bit like a dog too.
I’d like to get a dog, but it’s not a good idea right now.[/quote]
This.
I lost my little buddy Fenris last year and that cat thought he was a dog. He met me at the dog every day after work for 15 years. He followed me where every I went and would fetch things I threw.
[/quote]
No wonder it thought it was a dog, you named it after a wolf.
This American Life did a piece on a farmer who had his favorite bull cloned. The bull used to hang out with him all the time and was more of a pet than livestock. He treated the cloned version the same way and it tried to kill him multiple times.
[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:
This American Life did a piece on a farmer who had his favorite bull cloned. The bull used to hang out with him all the time and was more of a pet than livestock. He treated the cloned version the same way and it tried to kill him multiple times.[/quote]
Stop calling me Bullwinkle, asshole!
My name is CHARLES, FFS!
And I don’t like fucking alfalfa!
Some people have said this is “creepy”. How so? It is NOT the same dog…unless twins are now the same people.
If you are ever cloned, it won’t be YOU. It will have the same genetic code…and possibly make some of the same choices you have and even like the same colors…but it isn’t like you share the same “soul”.
It would be more like having a son exactly like you.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It would be more like having a son exactly like you.[/quote]
A son who tries to kill the shit out of you… if This American Life has taught me anything.
You know what’s funny…living in a world we are quickly overpopulating when the average life span is still less than 80 years of age yet running from science that could very well help us save ourselves in the long run.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You know what’s funny…living in a world we are quickly overpopulating when the average life span is still less than 80 years of age yet running from science that could very well help us save ourselves in the long run.[/quote]
How’s that?
Are you suggesting we stop fucking and start cloning in smaller numbers?
(I honestly can’t see what else you could be referring to.)
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You know what’s funny…living in a world we are quickly overpopulating when the average life span is still less than 80 years of age yet running from science that could very well help us save ourselves in the long run.[/quote]
How’s that?
Are you suggesting we stop fucking and start cloning in smaller numbers?
(I honestly can’t see what else you could be referring to.)[/quote]
No. I mean thinking past this one situation and thinking of things like drastically increasing life span or in the event of this world not being able to support us having a way of making sure the human race can still exist.
I think that’s the point…most people only look at what’s right in front of them. They will squeal about the idea of a pet being cloned but completely ignore how that may help cure cancer or some other issue.
The original debate with cloning seemed to revolve around the fact that it crossed over into “man playing God” territory.
I am just saying that if you do believe that, your “soul” isn’t being cloned to start with.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You know what’s funny…living in a world we are quickly overpopulating when the average life span is still less than 80 years of age yet running from science that could very well help us save ourselves in the long run.[/quote]
How’s that?
Are you suggesting we stop fucking and start cloning in smaller numbers?
(I honestly can’t see what else you could be referring to.)[/quote]
No. I mean thinking past this one situation and thinking of things like drastically increasing life span or in the event of this world not being able to support us having a way of making sure the human race can still exist.
I think that’s the point…most people only look at what’s right in front of them. They will squeal about the idea of a pet being cloned but completely ignore how that may help cure cancer or some other issue.
The original debate with cloning seemed to revolve around the fact that it crossed over into “man playing God” territory.
I am just saying that if you do believe that, your “soul” isn’t being cloned to start with.[/quote]
Oh.
I think it would be really cool if I cloned myself a bunch of times and studied how I turned out after being raised in different environments.
Actually, I think I’ll write a book about that.
No one take my idea.
[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:
This American Life did a piece on a farmer who had his favorite bull cloned. The bull used to hang out with him all the time and was more of a pet than livestock. He treated the cloned version the same way and it tried to kill him multiple times.[/quote]
Did the clone have a goatee?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You know what’s funny…living in a world we are quickly overpopulating when the average life span is still less than 80 years of age yet running from science that could very well help us save ourselves in the long run.[/quote]
How’s that?
Are you suggesting we stop fucking and start cloning in smaller numbers?
(I honestly can’t see what else you could be referring to.)[/quote]
No. I mean thinking past this one situation and thinking of things like drastically increasing life span or in the event of this world not being able to support us having a way of making sure the human race can still exist.
I think that’s the point…most people only look at what’s right in front of them. They will squeal about the idea of a pet being cloned but completely ignore how that may help cure cancer or some other issue.
The original debate with cloning seemed to revolve around the fact that it crossed over into “man playing God” territory.
I am just saying that if you do believe that, your “soul” isn’t being cloned to start with.[/quote]
We play God all the time…doctors play God every day, judges play God every time they sentence a criminal. People don’t see the difference in cloning a kidney from someone’s own cells for a transplant and cloning a human/animal. They see “clone” and think bad things and bring religion in. It’s stupid.
