Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog. Here ’s How Much That Costs

Barbra Streisand cloned a beloved dog, as revealed in a wide-ranging cover story for Variety. Her two pups Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett (who appear periodically on her Instagram) are clones of her Coton du Tulear Samantha, who passed away in May of 2017. Streisand has a third Coton du Tulear named Miss Fanny, who is a distant cousin of Samantha. “They have different personalities,” Streisand told Variety, of the cloned dogs. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her brown eyes and seriousness.” This has left us wondering, “What does it take to clone a pet?” Happy New Year from my three girls… Pink, Blue & Violet. A post shared by Barbra Streisand (@barbrastreisand) on Jan 1, 2018 at 6:34pm PST The history of cloning animals The news of Streisand’s cloned dog comes more than two decades after the infamous cloning of Dolly the sheep in Scotland in 1996. After Dolly, it took nearly a decade to successfully clone a dog. The first cloned dog, Snuppy, an Afghan hound, was born in 2005 in South Korea at Seoul National University. Up until 2015, the only place a person could get their dog cloned was South Korea. One such laboratory, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, has been operating since 2006 and has cloned at least 600 dogs, according to a 2015 interview with NPR. In 2016, the first dog cloned on American soil was born — a Jack Russell Terrier named Nubia, who was cloned by the T...
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