Would You Clone Your Pet?
Little Nicky pictured above (born October 17, 2004), was the first commercially produced cat clone. He was created from the DNA of a 19-year-old Maine Coon cat named Nicky who died in 2003. Little Nicky’s owner, a North Texas woman named Julie (whose last name was not released) paid $50,000 to have Nicky cloned. The cloning operation was performed by the California-based company Genetic…