【The Exotic Time Machine】

Things rich people can The Exotic Time Machinedo to mourn their pets:

  • Compress their ashes into diamonds.

  • Send them to space.

  • Collect their cells for cloning.

Barbra Streisand naturally went for the final option, revealing in a Varietyprofile that two of her three current dogs are actual clones of her late Coton de Tulear, Samantha. Iconic.

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As writer Ramin Setoodeh explains, Streisand had cells taken from the dog's mouth and stomach in order to create her current pets, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. Samantha died in 2017.

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From Variety:

"They have different personalities," Streisand says. "I'm waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her brown eyes and her seriousness."

Dog cloning is no new phenomenon, but it's still prohibitively expensive. Viagen Pets says a cloned version of beloved pets can run clients anywhere between $25,000 and $50,000, while the New York Postreports that a man spent more than $100,000 on a clone of his dog.

Urns are nice too, though.

[H/T: Variety]


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