We love our dogs for their individual characters-and yet cloning implies that we also believe their unique, unreproducible selves can, in fact, be reproduced.
He introduced me to the dogs, Princess Ariel and Princess Jasmine. They were named for a deceased, much mourned dog named Princess- part Shih Tzu, part Lhasa Apso-whom they strongly resemble. As they should, they are Princess's clones.
In 2016, the original Princess was given a diagnosis of cancer, and Mendola was devastated. He had seen a television program about pet cloning, and, looking online, he found a company in Texas called ViaGen Pets & Equine.
ViaGen could cryogenically preserve a pet's cells indefinitely and generate a new pet from the old cells, for a fee of fifty thousand dollars.
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