“If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me would we, could we?”
Barbra Streisand had a hit singing this question in The Way We Were, but when it comes to getting a new pet she does not have to wonder.
The Funny Girl singer and actress had her beloved 14-year-old Coton de Tulear dog Samantha cloned after her death in 2017, and now has two new pups with identical DNA.
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Streisand told Hollywood trade publication Variety in an interview published on Tuesday that cells were taken from the mouth and stomach of Samantha.
Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs Miss Violet (top) and Miss Scarlet. Photo: Variety / YouTube
“They have different personalities,” Streisand said. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her brown eyes and her seriousness.”
Streisand said that when the cloned dogs arrived, she dressed them in red and lavender to tell them apart, which is how they got their names – Miss Scarlett and Miss Violet.
