A married couple in Florida have spent over £100,000 cloning their deceased dog . Edgar and Nina Otto live in West Boca, but lost their pet Labrador, Sir Lancelot, when it died in January 2008. Since then, the couple have spent £108,000 in a bid to recreate their former pet. The couple have paid a South Korean biotech firm for the clone, who will join Mr and Mrs Otto’s twenty nine other animals . They own nine other dogs, ten cats, six sheep and four parrots .
The cloned dog, Lancelot Encore, was born in South Korea ten weeks ago and has since been flown to Miami to meet his owners. Mr and Mrs Otto had samples of Sir Lancelot’s DNA frozen when he was diagnosed with cancer six years ago, which was then replaced inside the egg of an ‘indigenous Korean dog’ resembling a blood hound, and was then implanted in a second Korean dog.
Nina Otto said, ‘He looks just like my original Lancelot. The most interesting thing about this Lancelot we notice he's bonded immediately within an hour with every other pets in the house. He's the Alpha dog’.
Her husband, Edgar, added, ‘We hope he's the same as the original, but we do realise if he's different we're not going to love him any less.’.
Couple Spend GBP100,000 Cloning Dead Dog
Fri, 30 Jan 2009
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