More than you ever need to know about your fluffy friend.
With a couple of dog-fondling exceptions, your team at the Medical Republic are overwhelmingly committed cat fanatics.
No reason is too lame, nor link too tenuous, for us to whip out a picture of a furry feline to illustrate a yarn or two. Such as this one above, which features a stunning, graceful, lithesome beauty, and also Nastassja Kinski, from the 1980s flick Cat People – arguably one of the worst movie remakes inflicted on humankind.
So imagine our delight when we discovered that the wonderful folks at the inspirationally named firm, Basepaws, are offering a kitty DNA testing kit to proud pussy parents.
For a paltry $US129.99, and the very real threat of a badly scratched hand, a cheek swab of your cat companion will be analysed to provide a “full view of your cat’s unique genome”.
The DNA analysis will provide breed composition (although, surprisingly, not a confirmation of pedigree), a chromosome map and health-related genetic markers related to 17 common feline diseases.
But the best part is, Basepaws promises to provide a “wild cat index” which will reportedly show just how closely related, or not, your moggy is to wild larger cats!
Maybe this is why cats so love to paw their way over computer keyboards and pop up unexpectantly in multiple Zoom meetings. They are really trying to trace their family trees and prove that they are directly descended from MGM’s Leo the Lion.
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