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The best thing I learned today is that Barbra Streisand cloned her dog

February 27, 2018

Things rich people can do to mourn their pets: 

Barbra Streisand naturally went for the final option, revealing in a Variety profile that two of her three current dogs are actual clones of her late Coton de Tulear, Samantha. Iconic.

As writer Ramin Setoodeh explains, Streisand had cells taken from the dog’s mouth and stomach in order to create her current pets, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. Samantha died in 2017. 

From Variety:

Dog cloning is no new phenomenon, but it’s still prohibitively expensiveViagen Pets says a cloned version of beloved pets can run clients anywhere between $25,000 and $50,000, while the New York Post reports that a man spent more than $100,000 on a clone of his dog. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | The best thing I learned today is that Barbra Streisand cloned her dog

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