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A woman has revealed how she spent $25,000 cloning her dead cat because she believed the pet was her soulmate.
Speaking to and on ‘s , Kelly Anderson, 32, from Texas, said she was distraught when her five-year-old pet, Chai, died in 2017.
Kelly described Chai as ‘the closest thing she could describe to a soulmate’, slot gacor terbaru adding:’ I lost her very young, so when she passed I remembered a conversation I had with my room mate about cloning and I reached out to ViaGen Pets.Belle came into my life just last year.’
As she held Chai’s clone Belle on her lap, she went on to describe how the process of cloning her animal took four years — but it was ‘definitely worth the wait.’
Kelly Anderson, from Texas, spent $25,000 cloning her dead cat Chai because she believed the pet was her soulmate (pictured, with Chai’s clone Belle)
Biologically her new cat Belle (left) is part of Chai (right), because they share the same DNA due to the cloning process
Biologically her new cat Belle is part of Chai, because they share the same DNA due to the cloning process.
ViaGen Pets, based in Texas, is a division of TransOva Genetics, that offers animal cloning services to pet owners.
ViaGen Pets has been cloning horses and livestock for 17 years, three and a half years ago they started cloning cats and dogs.
Cloning a dog costs $50,000 while a cat is now $35,000 — the company recently increased the fee by $10,000 to cover rising costs.
Kelly explained that the full process took nearly four years from start to finish, however she admitted that isn’t the ‘normal length of time’
The difference in price is due to dogs going into heat only once or twice a year while a cat’s reproductive cycle is much more frequent.
To clone a pet, ViaGen Pets requires at least two skin samples to collect the DNA.
Most skin samples are taken from the belly or the inside of a pet’s leg.
These samples are then chilled with ice packs and sent to a laboratory where they are placed in an incubator and cells start to grow.
Kelly explained how her new cat Belle is her own creature and she never expected her to be exactly like Chai
She went onto say she also adopted two other cats but she wanted to clone Chai (pictured) because she felt she ‘didn’t have that time with her’ after she died young
Within two to four weeks, there are millions of cells.
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