To a dog walker from West Yorkshire, England, Laura Jacques, Dylan-named boxer was priceless. Jacques said that she fell in love with him at the first sight. She broke down completely in June when the 8-year-old canine got diagnosed with a brain tumor and has about a year to live.

She said, “Within 19 days of the diagnosis, he was gone. I was still in denial about the fact that he was even going to die in the near future”. Laura’s partner Richard Remde was also grieving but the well being of Jacques was his biggest concern. Remde said that "he felt that he needed to do something to make everything a bit better for her.

In such a case, generally folks go out and adopt a puppy but it was not same in Remde’s case. He instead packed up some samples of tissue of Dylan and boarded a flight to South Korea. He went to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, where you need to give $100,000 for cloning a pup.

Though the founder of the company has a dark past of probable scientific misconduct and fraud, with Sooam producing hundreds of healthy dog clones, his career has witnessed a second wind.

Initially, Jacques and her partner simply hoped to place some cells of Dylan in storage with Sooam so they may consider a clone creation down the line. However, the couple welcomed a Boxing Day boxer into the family on December 26, and a second clone of Dylan came the following day.