Sock enters the spirit of the season, joyfully destroying wreath after wreath of shiny, scrunchy, delicious tinsel. My carpet is strewn with a galaxy of [space]dust and golden stars.
Tomorrow she will receive:
1) a spaniel water bowl designed to keep her ears clean
2) a long-limbed rabbit soft toy from the Warehouse for her to dismember
3) a cake of dog chocolate
4) the shinbone and ankle bones of a dead cow
5) a chocolate-flavoured rubber bone
I want to sing christmas carols so I might have to go to church at some stage. Then again I might just see if I can get that "All the Best Christmas Carols" CD from the Warehouse and sing along to that. Yay for Snoopy's Christmas! I love that song. And chances of them singing it at church are about as likely as them singing "New York Christmas Carol".
(btw, heard the cover of that released at the mo on channel Z? Tis very good)
Channel Z sent me the Green Day album American Idiot, so I am thrashing that at the moment and enjoying it greatly.
I am so glad that I am spending Christmas alone. I just don't think I would be able to handle the stress of having to spend such a food-oriented holiday with anyone else. My Christmas dinner is likely to be boiled white rice and tuna. and maybe weetbix crunch for dessert. Would you care to join me? Perhaps Sock's meal would appeal more - beef cassarole Pedigree Pal with rice, and maybe some weetbix crunch to follow!
Food is such a struggle at the moment, I think if I had to do the social thing tomorrow it'd just end up being a panic attack. Shaking and crying and trying to hide under the table is such an elegant look ;)
Hope everyone has a good day, whatever you are doing. Stay safe, travel carefully, and love the ones you're with.
Lots of love and thankfullness to everyone who reads my blog and the support you all give me.
Non-Denominational Greetings and Good Wishes for your Governmentally Imposed Vacation Period!
Little Nicky
Little Nicky is the first cloned-to-be-sold animal ever, produced by Genetic Savings and Clone in California. The woman had her cat, Nicky, for 17 years before he died last year. The nine-week-old Little Nicky is flourishing and his owner says "he's the same. his personality is exactly the same." (from the nytimes.com website)
This has of course reignited the whole cloning and ethics debate and stuff. The one comment I am sick to death of hearing is "Oh, it cost $50,000. That's disgusting. She could have given a whole bunch of strays a home for that amount."
Well, yeah. And couples spending hundreds of thousands on fertility treatments could spend that on adopting or fostering the many kids that need a home. And the actors spending millions on plastic surgery could donate it to burns victims' plastic surgery instead.
In a way, I think this one of the most useful forms of cloning. Domestic animals, whose phisiology and psychology are largely understood more thoroughly than most animals, dogs and cats are the right animals to perfect the techniques on. People love them too much to put up with a high mutation or attrition rate so monitoring will be stringent and the techniques will progress faster.
But also, think of it. We could clone, or through cloning understand how to manipulate certain sections of DNA, to produce animals that are naturally excellent guide dogs. Or hearing dogs, or police dogs, or assist dogs. We could reduce the attrition rate. Dogs that enter but fail the police dogs program have to be euthanised because they are too vicious to live with a family. If we could pick the best right from the start, less money and fewer lives will be wasted. Same with guide dog programs, from the funding point of view.
I don't have too many ethical concerns with this, but I do think that I'd rather have a cloned, neutered, well-cared for kitten that cost its owner $50,000 than a field full of GM corn planted with a maximised potential profit spreading pollen on the wind. Just from a safety point of view.
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