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Article: No more sneezes with these cats: ; Company wants to create genetically altered felines
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 23, 2001
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NEW YORK - In this age of gene mapping and human cloning, of cows
constructed to produce more milk and rabbits created to glow green,
there comes a science project that could actually curl up at the
foot of your bed.
An upstate New York company wants to create a genetically altered
cat that won't make allergic people snuffle, sneeze, wheeze or itch.
In the kingdom of animal lovers, a debate already is raging about
the possibility of such a made-to-order pet.
"It's a tofu cat," said Peter Perez of Here Kitty Kitty, a cat
boarding house in Manhattan. "It is so much about what's going on in
our society: I don't look good, I get a tummy tuck. I sneeze around
my cat, I alter her for my needs. ...