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Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: Foxy Brown on September 25, 2006, 03:55:46 PM

What are claimed to be the world's first specially bred hypoallergenic cats have gone on sale in the US. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5375900.stm)

Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: albertjia on September 26, 2006, 11:36:48 AM

what is that?

Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: Guchi_Jnr on September 26, 2006, 12:07:41 PM

Quote from: albertjia

what is that?

If you click the link (the text Foxy quoted), I'm sure you'll be able to work it out for yourself.

Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: Asmodai on September 26, 2006, 01:42:37 PM

Awww.


I have cat allergies so I definately want one...

Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: huggumwuggums on September 26, 2006, 01:52:29 PM

3k is a LOT of money considering the fact you can take medicine/pills/I forgot the name to avoid from having allergic reactions.

Unless the pills/whatever has undesirable side effects that I may not know of..

Title: 'Hypoallergenic cats' go on sale
Post by: Asmodai on September 26, 2006, 02:17:04 PM

Cats on average live to their early teens.

Let's say about 10 years to round down.

It works out to about a dollar a day.

Surely having a playful companion that doesn't make you break out in hive and sneezing fits is worth as much as cable TV?

If you drop picking up Starbucks on the way to work on weekdays and take your own instead you can easily cover the cost of one of the cats. It doesn't seem too unreasonable to me.

Of course I don't really have the cash on hand and can't have pets in my apartment anyway, so I'm fine with waiting for the early adopters to shell out the money and for the price the drop in a few years.