Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British short hair was given a 10th life.<\/p>\n
Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by Chinese firm Sinogene, becoming the Beijing-based company’s first successfully copied cat.<\/p>\n
The pet-cloning outfit has made more than 40 pet dogs \u2014 a procedure that costs a hefty 380,000 yuan ($53,000), while the price for a cat comes in at 250,000 yuan ($35,000).<\/p>\n
Mi Jidong, the company’s chief executive officer, told\u00a0 AFP <\/em>\u00a0that despite the high price tag, not all clients were high earners.<\/p>\n Huang, 23,owner of\u00a0 new Garlic. was overjoyed on first seeing Garlic’s second incarnation, saying the “similarity between the two cats is more than 90 per cent”.<\/p>\n “When Garlic died, I was very sad,” said Huang. “I couldn’t face the facts because it was a sudden death. I blame myself for not taking him to the hospital in time, which led to his death.”<\/p>\n The happy owner says he hopes the personality of the new Garlic is as similar to his old white-and-grey cat as its appearance.<\/p>\n The first major success in animal cloning was Dolly the sheep, born in Britain in 1996 as the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British short hair was given a 10th life. Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by Chinese firm Sinogene, becoming the Beijing-based company’s first successfully copied cat. The pet-cloning outfit has made more than 40 pet dogs \u2014 a procedure that costs a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}