Pet cloning is on the rise

Over two thousand dogs have been cloned since 2005. Companies like ViaGen Pets & Equine report increasing demand for their services, with the firm cloning "more and more pets every year" since it started its pet cloning operations in 2015. The trend is also fueled by high-profile cases, such as celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Simon Cowell publicly cloning their pets. The cloning process involves extracting the nucleus of a skin cell from a pet and implanting it into an egg cell, which is then transferred to a surrogate mother. ViaGen, the leading pet-cloning company in the U.S., uses a patented process that includes cryopreserving cells and using surrogates to carry cloned embryos.