As one of the most successful actresses and singers in Hollywood, Barbra Streisand has achieved fame and status that has allowed her to amass a huge personal fortune. As a result of her professional success, she has the money to try out new scientific and technological advancements that mere mortals can only read about in the papers. She recently demonstrated that she can do such things when she revealed that she had her dying dog cloned not just once, but twice.
Streisand has always been a dog lover and had two Coton de Tulear dogs. These are a small breed of dog that has a cotton-like coat. One dog was called Samantha and the other, who was a distant relative of Samantha, was called Mis Fanny.
Sadly, Samantha became ill and Streisand knew that she was losing her much loved pet. Wanting the spirit of Samantha to live on, she decided to have two dogs cloned from her, the actress revealed in an interview with Variety magazine.
The star has not yet revealed much information about the two cloned dogs, except to say that they are called Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. The 75-year-old actress also explained that to have the dogs cloned, she had to collect cells from the mouth and stomach of Samantha when she was dying.
She has yet to discover if they have inherited exactly the same features and personality traits as Samantha, such her brown eyes or her seriousness. She is waiting until they are a little older and to get to know her new pets better before she decides just how similar they are to her deceased pet.
Streisand has had some difficulty in telling the cloned dogs apart as they are identical. Her solution to this problem is to dress them in different colored outfits. She has selected doggy outfits that match their names. So, Miss Violet is dressed in violet and Miss Scarlett is dressed in scarlet outfits.
It is a massive advancement in science that pet owners now have the option to clone their pets. Scientists have spent years researching how to clone cells and started with the cells of plants and microorganisms before advancing to cloning animal cells.
The first successfully cloned mammal was Dolly the sheep who became the most famous sheep in the world at the time. Dolly was born in July 1996, but the scientists involved in the process kept this information a secret from the public for months after her birth. They finally revealed the exciting news, complete with photos, in February 1997. Sadly, Dolly died in 2003, and this sparked speculation that she had accelerated aging due to the cloning process.
The fact that science has advanced enough for those with money, such as Barbra Streisand, to have their pets cloned is something that people would once not have believed was possible. If there is enough demand, there is the possibility that this process has the potential to become more widely available in the future and Streisand could have more of her pets cloned.
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