Rise of the $50K doggelgängers: How cloned pets became the hot, new investment for grieving owners
NY Post
When Venessa Johnson first laid eyes on her new puppy Ollie, the adorable, 8-week-old Shih Tzu seemed more than a little familiar.
Everything about him — his little nose, his mannerisms — brought back bittersweet memories of her late, beloved companion Oliver, who passed away in December of last year.
“It was strange because it was Oliver’s eyes looking at me, but it was not wholly him,” Johnson, 48, told The Post of her first, emotional meeting with Ollie in upstate New York recently, thousands of miles away from her home on the West Coast.
There was a good reason for the uncanny canine coincidence: cloning.
Ollie is Oliver’s doggelgänger.
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