‘I could have a piece of him come back’: The murky ethics of pet cloning

When Venessa Johnson, who’s based in Los Angeles, lost her 17-year-old dog, Oliver, in 2024, she started Googling how to process the loss of a pet. In between the articles on grief, there was one that popped up on pet cloning. “It felt like a lifeline,” she says. “This didn’t have to be finite. I could have a piece of him come back to me.” She spoke to someone at ViaGen, the leading pet cloning company in the US, who told her she had five days to preserve Oliver’s DNA, and that, sincehellip;

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