By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:48 PM on 12th January 2012
A distraught dog lover had her beloved pet cloned so that she could be with him even after he had died.
New Yorker Danielle Tarantola paid an incredible $50,000 for the procedure using pet Trouble’s DNA to create another dog exactly the same as the first.
She named the new pup Double Trouble after she contacted the world’s only animal cloning company in South Korea.
Double Trouble: The cloned pup may only a few months old but already he is living the same life as Trouble, in this photo the little pup is dressed as an angel, complete with halo.
Clone ranger: Trouble dressed as an elf at Christmas time, his DNA has since been cloned by his New York owner
And she said of her new pooch: ‘I really can see no difference between them. So many of their gestures andthe way they play is identical.’
Justa few months ago, the former Wall Street worker got a phone call from the company’s scientists informing her that the surrogate bitch carryingthe embryos developed from Trouble’s DNA had been successfully impregnated.
Weeks later, the surrogate went into labour and Danielle watched the birth by webcam from her home in the U.S.
Daniellehad been so upset by the death of her constant companion three years ago that she shelled out the massive fee so that she could have an identical replacement.
She said: ‘He was like the child I never had – and I probably did treat him better than most people treat their children.’
Beloved pet: Danielle Tarantola paid