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15 February 2008
A Seoul-based company says it has received the world’s first commercial order to clone a pet dog, from a California woman who wants to recreate Booger, her dead pit bull terrier. The cloning will be conducted by stem cell scientists at Seoul National University, where the first cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy, was created in 2005. The company, RNL BIO , said in a statement that is was charging $150,000 to clone Booger, using some ear tissue that the owner had refrigerated. “It seems that she had a disability and her dog helped her cope with the problem, so she was eager to get a clone of Booger,” the company’s chief executive, Ra Jeong-chan, was quoted as telling The Korea Times. “There are many people who want to clone their pet dogs in Western countries, even at this high price.” He said he expected up to 500 orders within a few years, adding that then “the cost for cloning a dog may come down to less than $50,000.”
