I am highly allergic to cats (touching a cat or cat hair, then my face results in swelling, tearing, itching, etc.) but have become able to tolerate cats over the years to a certain extent. Some cats are better than others in this regard.

Nevertheless I have two loving rescued cats that I would never give up. I have to take allergy medication most days, sometimes nasal spray and Benadryl if I have a fit, but I don't care... I love the little buggers.

$22,000 would buy so much food for rescued/ shelter cats it's not even funny.

ETA: I thought this article was about the cat engineered to be non-allergic, but this is much more ludicrous. If someone loves cats that much $22,000 can really go far towards rescuing, treating, neitering, feeding and adopting out loving rescued cats, who IMO have as much going for them as any purebred...

We have had terrible trouble with purebreds in our family-- first an Australian Shepherd, then a Siamese-- both developed fatal diseases we were told were linked to strong genetic traits from earlier inbreeding. We apparently didn't know our breeders at all.