Key Points
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe..
They were clones: genetically identical to their predecessor, now sadly deceased...
It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one of the first pets to be commercially cloned in the United States..
People dont want to think about their pet missing part of their ear, so that is sometimes a struggle...
The lab will create several embryos, then they transfer those embryos into one of our surrogate dogs or cats, which are specifically bred to be great mothers..