A British couple are awaiting the birth of two puppies cloned from their dead dog at a cost of around £67 000 (about R140 000).
Laura
Jacques and Richard Remde have flown to South Korea to a laboratory that offers the service over Christmas.They first contacted the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, which has pioneered pet cloning, after their boxer, Dylan, died from a brain tumour in June.Mr Remde, 42, who manages a building firm, said the arrival of their cloned dogs would be like “five Christmases coming at once”. Miss Jacques, a professional dog walker, said: “I had had Dylan since he was a puppy. I mothered him so much, he was my baby, my child, my entire world.”She heard about Sooam from a documentary on the first UK dog owner – Rebecca Smith from West London – to have her pet cloned. She had her living dachshund Winnie cloned for free after winning a competition. She called the new pup ‘Mini-Winnie’. The couple, thought to be the first Britons to pay to have their dog cloned, took the DNA samples from Dylan themselves. But Mr Remde had to make two trips to the laboratory, which is based in Seoul, the South Korean capital, because the first batch of samples did not grow.The couple, from Silsden, North Yorkshire, were delighted when pregnancies were confirmed in two bitches using eggs carrying Dylan’s DNA.
Laura
Jacques and Richard Remde have flown to South Korea to a laboratory that offers the service over Christmas.They first contacted the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, which has pioneered pet cloning, after their boxer, Dylan, died from a brain tumour in June.Mr Remde, 42, who manages a building firm, said the arrival of their cloned dogs would be like “five Christmases coming at once”. Miss Jacques, a professional dog walker, said: “I had had Dylan since he was a puppy. I mothered him so much, he was my baby, my child, my entire world.”She heard about Sooam from a documentary on the first UK dog owner – Rebecca Smith from West London – to have her pet cloned. She had her living dachshund Winnie cloned for free after winning a competition. She called the new pup ‘Mini-Winnie’. The couple, thought to be the first Britons to pay to have their dog cloned, took the DNA samples from Dylan themselves. But Mr Remde had to make two trips to the laboratory, which is based in Seoul, the South Korean capital, because the first batch of samples did not grow.The couple, from Silsden, North Yorkshire, were delighted when pregnancies were confirmed in two bitches using eggs carrying Dylan’s DNA.
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