Animals of the Year

As far as the glowing cats go, they were trying to develop treatment for genetic disease. Why vilify these Korean scientists who are trying to better the human race? Should they really be spending that money to support war of feed the starving children of other countries? I think not. My intentions aren't to offend, but the parents of said starving children should not have chosen to procreate if they couldn't feed their offspring.

Well I suppose science wants to find new stuff...but all that genetic modification mumbojumbo aside, I sure hope those wolves will be given a happy life. They're wild animals and need space, so hopefully that cage they're gnawing on isn't home.

in my last comments I had two different peices of info when I was talking about the glowing fish but I just found the article. These scientists in Taiwan used a gene found in some jellyfish to make zebra fish glow! They sold it to some company that sold the fish (now called GloFish or Night Pearl Fish) as pets. You can buy them at some pet stores except if you live in California. Weird isn't it? Oh! Almost forgot! It's from 2004 in a book by that science education company "Brain POP".

you guys make me sick. whats next glowing people. this is almost as bad as cloning which is the most disgusting idea i have ever heard. im not religious but this what they would say "plying god".
- Leilani Balanay, 808-345-1080 from kailua kona hawaii

I think glowing animals are cool. Glowing CLONED animals = win.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO CLONE ANIMALS? I MEAN ALL YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO IS BREED......WAIT.......AND THERE YOU GO ANOTHER ANIMAL/ORGINISM. YA, IT MIGHT NOT BE THE COLOR YOU WANT IT OR IT MIGHT NOT KNOW THE SAME STUFF BUT GET OVER IT. ALSO, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO MAKE AN ANIMAL/ORGANISM GLOW? SO YO CAN SEE IT IN THE NIGHT? I AGREE WITH SMARTGIRL63 ABOUT THAT THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW THEN MAKING ANIMALS GLOW. I THINK THAT THEY NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE WAR AND ALL THE STARVING CHILDREN THEN MAKING ANIMALS GLOW. I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT. HMMMMMMMMMM.........STARVING CHILDREN AND WAR.........OR............MAKING ANIMALS GLOW. HOW STUPID COULD THEY GET. WITH ALL THE MONEY THAT THEY ARE SPENDING ON THE GLOWING ANIMALS THEY COULD HELP THE LITTLE STARVING CHILDREN OR MAKE DONATIONS TO HELP THE TROOPS OVER SEAS.

I'm not particularly religious, but the idea of cloning anything gives me the heeby jeebies. That aside, from what i'v read, the idea of the glowing component is not just to see if they can make fluffy glow; it's to see if they could clone the genetically manipulated organism/animal. It's kind of like changing a computer file and then "saving as" to a new file, and then making copies of the new file. They can just reproduce the genetically manipulated organism over and over, instead of manipulating the genetic make-up of each individual organism. They just used the glowing side effect to catch people's attention.

when people mess with the natural order of things (like cloning animals), they think that what they are doing is acceptable. But actually, they come off as looking stupid. And abbylouise is right. There are other more important things going on right now than cloning cats to make them glow. I mean, they figured out how to make fish glow about 3 YEARS ago! And I can see how humanely testing on amimals would be acceptable if it was for an important cause. I don't understand why or where people get theotivation to do these kinds of things. Is it because of some kind of mental problem? If it is, wouldn't the simple solution be just to get a gosh darn shrink!?!?!? Whatever the reason, my motto is "if it's sensible, do it. If it's stupid, don't".

people who mess with animals for their own entertainment must
think that what they are doing is acceptable in society but really,
in my opinion, they come off as being just plain stupid! I can see
why a simple, humane experiment that could change many peoples'
lives may be acceptable. But if it's for something so stupid as glowing
cats... I mean, COME ON! It's not important. They figured out how to
make fish glow five YEARS ago. I don't get how people get the motivation
to do these things. Is it some kind of mental problem? If it is why can't
they just get a shrink instead of messing around with animal genetics?!?!

So sad. Childrend are starving there and they are cloning animals.

*below I have in my comment "...they are susucsessful, they will tat cloning..." it should be START cloning. not tat. Sorry*

Why did the animals have to "wait to die". Couldn't they be humanly put to death??? Notice workers JUST looking on in the back ground.

I hate the cloning! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!!!!! The only reason that they are cloning with animals is that it is too dangerous to test on humans. Then when they are sucsessful, they will tat cloning humans. We should not be even trying this, as a specis on our own, humans. I love the Earth and everything in it, except one specis. The bigest mistake ever made by the Infallible One, God, was humans. WE ruined the Earth, in all its goodness. The earth would still exsist in 250 years if we weren't here. With all our polution, litering, and wars. WE are the worst possible beings alive, and/or dead.

Are these scientists cloning inicent animals for peoples entertainment??? Why do these scientists test animals to help with our health??? They are selfish people who don't care about animals feelings! This only goes for scientists that test on animals.

I feel soooo sorry for that vet who got his hand bit off by that croc, but the i am glad they didn't hurt the croc.

Why does it say they shot Barbaro????? Thats not what it says in the article. Barbaro was a good horse!

that is pretty sad about the cats. WHY WHY WHY!!! cant you just let the animals live like normal.

Okay,The glowing cat thing. The obvious first question: Is this unhealthy?. Also, Why do this to these animals? I admit it is bizarre and cool looking. But why? If God wanted them to glow He would of done it. I have a bad feeling about these kind of experiments. These are God's creatures and I dont like the idea of experimental tampering with genes to a point especially for entertainment purposes. Call me a party pooper,but,let science create legitimate,healthy and useful things,not this. gtegman@yahoo.com Everett,WA

What happened to the comment I just posted about barbaro?

I feel Barbaro should be named Animal of the Year. He fought to the bitter end,he wanted to live!!!! Barbaro, by far is the most Amazing Horse of the Century!!!! I also feel Gretchen and Roy Jackson and Dr. Richardson should be named incredible people of the Year. They too, wanted Barbaro to live and did everything humanly possible to keep him here with us. I will never forget Barbaro and the amazing people in this comment.
Darlyne,
New York

This is utterly disgusting. Destroying animals and trees together. I am sure they can find a better way.