Is Fido Gone Forever?

Not if you’re willing to shell out 150,000 dollars and hire a team of scientists:

An American couple were so distraught at the prospect of losing their pet Labrador that they decided to pay £100,000 to clone him.

Edgar and Nina Otto decided to have DNA samples of their pooch Sir Lancelot frozen six years ago, after he was diagnosed with cancer.

After he died last January in 2008, the wealthy pair then paid a biotech firm £108,000 to create Lancelot Encore.

I could think of a few better ways to spend my money.

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