How likely are engineered animals with human traits as pets scientifically

We literally already have done that, with the engineering method known as "selective breeding".

A lot of pets have been bred to have features that resemble humans more so that people like them more

Selective breeding for high intellegence has also had some very good results for certain breeds of dogs and birds.

As for using something like CRISPR to make a super smart racoon who can talk, that's a really long way off

>>8937337
>furry

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>>8937346
I mean beyond that, where they are actually bipedal and can talk and use tools and fly spacecraft and consent and things like this

>>8937415
>Consent

Obvious b& is b&

>>8937418
You don't think it would be a genuine concern if engineered creatures that were once meant for the entertainment of humans outgrow their original purpose to becomes equals in society?

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>>8937346
>As for using something like CRISPR

What is this? Elaborate?

>>8937444
you honestly haven't heard of CRISPR? I'll save you the googling and give you the abridged version.

Its basically precision genetic engineering, down to the single nucleobase. It's ridiculously cheap and easy compared to conventional methods, but thanks to the hype around it people are rightly skeptical of what it can actually do.
"immortality" is a word you'd hear alot, along with "CRISPR could cure <currently incurable disease>", so it's really cool but don't lose your shit.

>>8937444
>>8937522
also checked

>>8937337
It was already done. Human brain cells were matriced into a mouses cells and forced to operate beside them. The rat carried on for a while as normal, no noticeable boost in intelligence....
Then again they didn't put those cells in the mouses prefrontal cortex....

They didn't however make a hybrid cell....yet....

>>8937337
>will I have a furry gf in my lifetime
no

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>>8937568
>gf

???

>>8937522
So it has just as much of a chance of it turning out to be an elaborate hoax just like the microwave jet engine spacefags were arguing over?

>>8937585
CRISPR has proven to work in editing genes though.

>>8937602
Whoah whoah you mean I can finally get rid of my autism and my family's retarded genes? You mean there's yet hope to fix my learning disorder?
The next Michael Jackson will be white without dying or looking like a tranny elf?>>8937602

>>8937573
bf*

>>8937585
>>8937699
It's not a hoax and it does work for some stuff, but it's not a panacea.

Like, people will claim stuff like "CRISPR will cure cancer and autism and vitiligo (aka micheal jackson disease)" but the truth is that it probably will cure vitiligo and it might cure autism but it's probably only going to cure a few very specific cancers at best or maybe even not be used at all.

So, it's not nothing but people are hyping it for more than it is.

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One can dream.