Expensive pussy

[megamania]

Wee-Haw!



So many things to say but most everyone here has already said it.

 

[Umbran]

"ALLERCA has produced the world's first scientifically-proven hypoallergenic cats."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Doubly so when the claim is intended to push a multi-thousand dollar purchase for a kitten, when there's scores of kittens already looking for homes.

They don't provide any. They assert, but provide no evidence. Looking through their FAQs, I find this:

"Is there information regarding the independent verification of your claims?

We expect a scientific paper to be published sometime in 2007 and we will make the results available at that time."

That's... not exactly convincing.

 

[Harmon]

Anyone thinking of buying one of these come see me first, I can get you a cat for half that price. Write me a check and give me a couple days after to get the kitty to you.

People with disposable income like that need to share to those of us with bills- and I am not talking about credit cards that are over the limit, I mean bills.

 

[Umbran]

People with disposable income like that need to share to those of us with bills- and I am not talking about credit cards that are over the limit, I mean bills.

Ducks and platypi, unite!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Ducks and platypi, unite!

Form Blazing Sword!

-Hyp.

 

[BOZ]

Again?

yes. let's not get into that again, though...

 

[reveal]

I'll tell you what, last time I paid that much, I swelled up something awful. I would have loved for it to have been allergen free.

What?

It's a cat?

Nevermind.

 

[kenobi65]

I'll tell you what, last time I paid that much, I swelled up something awful. I would have loved for it to have been allergen free.

They have shots for that, you know.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

The title is a bit inappropriate (well, more of a WTF? sorta title), but KenM is hardly flaming anyone with it.

Fact is, that if people stopped talking about KenM's past... indulgences, then they really wouldn't be an issue anymore. I never heard tickety-boo about them until someone started talking about it. That's rude.

OTOH, KenM did leave himself open for a reference with a title like that, given his past, but only those in the know would bring it up, as it so obviously was.

--N

I certainly didn't realise that there was a previous history of any sort behind this. I'm intrigued now!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Fenris]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Doubly so when the claim is intended to push a multi-thousand dollar purchase for a kitten, when there's scores of kittens already looking for homes.

They don't provide any. They assert, but provide no evidence. Looking through their FAQs, I find this:


That's... not exactly convincing.

Did you look at the PCRs and Westerns? They look pretty good to me. Seems like after they identifed the Fel d 1 glycoprotein, they went on a massive genome hunt. Sounds like they sequenced lots of cats looking for SNPs or other genetic miscues in the Fel d 1 glycoprotein gene. Once identified they breed those cats to generate homozygous lines that produce Fel d 1 glycoproteins with a modifed chain 1, which is the immunoreactive site interacting with T-cells). The Westerns show a pretty clear degragation of the Fel d 1 glycoprotein. Seems to me they just did some fancy breeding. Along with high-throughput genomics to identify rare genetic mutants of course.

They won't publish until the patent comes out, that's pretty standard. But I think the science shown is sound.