Last week I blogged about a California Lawmaker who promised to introduce a bill into the State Legislature to prohibit the sales of cloned animals. Yesterday, the American Anti-Vivisection Society jumped into arena by petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to regulate pet-cloning companies in the same way it does with other animal research labs under the Animal Welfare Act.

"Pet cloning companies offer false hope of never having to let go of a pet and are causing harm to animals in the process," the AAVS concluded in a report released yesterday, "Pet Cloning: Separating Facts From Fluff."

Even though the cost of procuring a cloned cat is so prohibitive that populations of duplicate-kitties won't be an issue for at least a few years. But as with anything else, costs come down over time.

We may one day see pet cloning become affordable for everyone.