New Breed of Cat: Clones to Make Debut at Annual Show: "Mr. Hawthorne said the idea for Genetic Savings began with - horrors - a dog. He said he was having breakfast with a friend in 1997, after Dolly the sheep had been cloned. 'His dog Missy, a great dog, was under the table at that moment, and he said, 'You know, we ought to clone Missy.'
The Cat Fanciers' Association, which produces the annual cat show and maintains the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats, is setting up a gene bank with Genetic Savings.
Allen Scruggs, the show chairman, described the cat fanciers' group as 'a very old and very conservative organization. He said its interest in cat cloning reflected its interest 'in showing the world that we were not so stuffy and fuddy-duddy - that we were aware of what technology has presented the animal world.'"
