Just purr-fect: Garlic being tended to by its surrogate mother at the Chinese company Sinogene in Beijing. — AFP
Beijing: Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair 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 – a procedure that costs 380,000 yuan (RM222,800), while the price for a cat comes in at 250,000 yuan (RM146,600).Mi Jidong, the company’s chief executive officer, said that despite the high price tag, not all clients were high earners.
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