US woman orders five clones of her dog

If you ever plan to clone your beloved pet, call up a Korean cloning company and be prepared to shell out $50,000 for five equivalents of your animal. Bernann McKinney, a scriptwriter from Hollywood, did just that and went down in history as the first person to have ordered a firm to clone a pet. To celebrate the first commercial cloning deal, the cloning company gave McKinney a 70% discount on her order. Normally the procedure would cost around $150,000.

Anguish over a dead pet can become overwhelming to the point of making one consider cloning and resurrecting their pet, but why order five identical copies of a pet darling? McKinney says she plans to train some of her clone puppies as service dogs for handicapped people.