Chinese Man Digs Up His Dead Cat & Puts It In Fridge To Clone It

Raina Ee

2019-09-07 , 2:00 pm

We have all been heartbroken at some point of time in life, and everyone deals with these emotions differently.

For instance, cancelling the tattoo of your ex’s name after a breakup.

And for many pet parents, they would ink the late pet on themselves.

Then we have this Chinese man here, who proves that love is crazy and it makes you do the unexpected.

Such as cloning your dead cat.

Cat With 10 Lives

Garlic, the cat who was given a 10th life, had passed away and was buried by its owner, Huang Yu.

However, even though seven months had passed, Huang Yu was still heartbroken over his beloved cat’s death.

So, you guessed it, he decided to clone his cat.

Mr Huang said in an interview that Garlic is irreplaceable, and as it did not leave anything for the future generation, the only option he had was to clone it.

He also blamed himself for Garlic’s unnatural death and felt that he did not shower Garlic with enough care.

First Cloned Cat In China

This is a real-life situation of a copycat.

“New” Garlic was born on 21 July and is the first successfully cloned cat by Beijing-based company, Sinogene.

According to Mr Huang, the new Garlic is 90% similar to the old one and he was overjoyed to meet the incarnation of old Garlic.

The cloning procedure is also reported to have cost roughly S$48,460.

How Does Cloning Work?

If you’re a curious cat—just like I am—I’m sure you have been wondering how cloning actually works.

Image: National Human Genome Research Institute

So here’s how it goes:

Scientist retrieves DNA cells from deceased cat
Find a surrogate cat mother to carry the embryo
Inject retrieved DNA cells into the embryo

There you go, a re-born cat!

Unknown Consequences Of Cloning

While there is a high demand for pet cloning in China, (which is the reason why Sinogene started to clone pets in 2015) it is unknown as to whether cloning does any harm to the “re-born” pet.

However, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), negative effects have been noticed in various cloned mammals and sheep.

Effects include defected vital organs, premature ageing, and poor immune system.

Critics have also asserted that pet cloning is inefficient and inhumane and that the money spent can be used to care for existing animals.

Other than China, cloning is also only allowed in nations such as the United States, Britain and South Korea.

And no, Singapore definitely doesn’t allow cloning – if there is one thing you need to know about Singapore, it is that we have a lot of “cannots”

I don’t know about you, I definitely think that inking your pet on your body is way better than cloning.

To each his own.

However, I do hope that Mr Huang would live happily with the new Garlic 2.0. Or shall we say, onion?

Chinese Man Digs Up His Dead Cat & Puts It In Fridge To Clone It

Cat With 10 Lives

First Cloned Cat In China

How Does Cloning Work?

Unknown Consequences Of Cloning

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