Boca Raton Couple Paid $155,000 at Auction to Clone a Deceased Pet
We posted last June about the Best Friends Again cloning auction, a program sponsored by BioArts International. The winners, Nina and Edgar Otto, paid $155,000 for Lancelot Encore, a clone of the Otto's late dog, Lancelot. The Ottos have just welcomed their new puppy clone into their multi-pet household.
From the Miami Herald:
The 10-week-old golden Labrador retriever is a clone, created in South Korea by a California biotech firm from the DNA of the first Sir Lancelot, the beloved pet of Ed and Nina Otto of Boca Raton.
The original ''Lancy'' died, at age 11, in January 2008.
A celebrity from the moment he bounded off an American Airlines flight Monday night at Miami International Airport, Lancy redux ''very quickly integrated into the menagerie and held his own,'' said Lou Hawthorne, CEO of BioArts, the firm that auctioned off five dog-cloning procedures last July.
The Ottos spent $155,000 to win the second-round auction.
Cloning replicates an animal's genetics, barring DNA mutations, but can it replicate the spirit of the being you knew and loved?
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Posted by Molly & Jessie at January 28, 2009 8:53 AM
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