{"id":1564,"date":"2006-09-15T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/brave_new_fur.html"},"modified":"2006-09-15T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:32:28","slug":"brave_new_fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/brave_new_fur.html","title":{"rendered":"Brave New Fur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manhattan Cat, whose entire existence is informed by dank, cramped apartments they never leave, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/paws_for_breath_regionalnews_marina_vataj.htm\">gets much, much freakier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Josh is a $4,000 cat, bred to keep from setting off allergic reactions like sniffles, teary eyes and hives in people like me &#8212; who until now could never have a meaningful relationship with a feline.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-year-old male was bred by a company called Allerca, which set up our meeting yesterday at the W Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>After hiding under the bed, then behind a pillow, he let me cradle him in my arms.<\/p>\n<p>I waited and . . . nothing. No sneezing. No tears.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The special cats won&#8217;t be available to the general public until early next year. Already, there&#8217;s a long waiting list. New Yorkers are actually paying an extra $2,000 to be bumped to the front of the line.<\/p>\n<p>Allerca developed the pets by selectively breeding cats that had a &#8220;changed&#8221; glycoprotein, the genetic property that triggers an allergy, said Bernadine Cruz, Josh&#8217;s vet. One in 50,000 cats has this altered protein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joshua is second generation and there&#8217;s many more to come,&#8221; Cruz said, adding that he&#8217;s the result of three years of research.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just say no to genetically modified cats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manhattan Cat, whose entire existence is informed by dank, cramped apartments they never leave, gets much, much freakier: Josh is a $4,000 cat, bred to keep from setting off allergic reactions like sniffles, teary eyes and hives in people like me &#8212; who until now could never have a meaningful relationship with a feline. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}