The couple have now travelled to South Korea and are awaiting delivery of two Boxer puppies.
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The couple’s dog died at an age of eight years in June 2015, due to a heart attack after he was detected with a brain tumor.
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“We got all the cells packaged up and I booked a flight for him and he flew out the next morning”, said Ms Jaques who owns another four dogs and 11 other animals at her home.
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“I see it as Dylan’s puppies but they will have 100 per cent his DNA – not just 50”, she said.
The process involves extracting DNA from a recently dead animal and implanting this into an egg which has had the nucleus removed.
The egg is given electric shocks to start cell division and it is then implanted into a surrogate bitch.
The cloned animals will have the same DNA as the original dog and share may have similar personality traits.
David King, a scientist at Sooam, told the paper the puppies were historically significant because the DNA had been extracted from Dylan 12 days after he died. Because he has become the first dead dog to be cloned in Britain.
He said it will “hopefully” allow the lab to extend the time after death to take cells for cloning.
There are now no regulations on the cloning of pets, although the cloning of human beings is illegal and in August the European parliament voted to outlaw the cloning of farm animals.
“It will be like five Christmases coming all at once”, said Remde.
Jaques was heartbroken when Dylan died in June. Sooam Biotech scientist Dr Woo Suk Hwang has been cloning dogs in South Korea since 2005.
A spokesperson for the RSPCA told the Guardian that there were “serious ethical and welfare concerns” associated with cloning. The boxer pups are slated to be born to a surrogate on – fittingly – Boxing Day.
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“There is also a body of evidence that cloned animals frequently suffer physical ailments such as tumours, pneumonia and abnormal growth patterns”, said spokesman.
