A woman who paid $50,000 (£38,000) to clone her dog is so thrilled with the result that she has vowed to clone him again in six years time.
Amy Vangemert chose to duplicate her beloved toy poodle Buhner, 13, when the thought of him passing away made her cry every day.
The 55-year old mum-of-four contacted the same company that cloned Barbra Streisand’s dog in 2017.
The company agreed to carry out the procedure and successfully presented Amy with three identical puppies six months later.
Amy, from Seattle in the US, named the now two-year-old dogs Buhner Junior, Baxter and Ditto.
‘It’s the best decision I’ve ever made,’ said Amy, who owns a construction company with her husband John.
‘They are my joy in life. It was worth every penny.
‘I couldn’t be happier. It’s the best decision I have ever made.’
What’s more, she says that she plans to continue to keep cloning the dogs to keep them the same for ever.
‘I would clone over and over again,’ she said. ‘I want these puppies, there’s nothing like them.’
Amy isn’t alone in wanting to clone her pets. Music mogul Simon Cowell has also said he plans to do the same – for a considerably higher amount.
‘I am 100 per cent cloning the dogs, all of them,’ he told The Sun on Sunday.
‘We’ve thoroughly looked into it, got all the details and I can prove to you I’m going to clone them. There is documentation.’
‘I am doing it because I cannot bear the thought of them not being around. I might actually do it sooner rather than later, which will mean we have six dogs running around.’
The decision doesn’t come cheaply, though. Cowell is reportedly looking at a £180,000 bill to create genetic copies of his beloved dogs Squiddly, Diddly and Freddy.
