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Little Nicky (born October 17, 2004) is the first commercially produced cat clone. He was produced from the DNA of a 19-year-old Maine Coon cat named Nicky who died in 2003. Little Nicky's owner, a north Texas woman named Julie (whose last name was not released) paid $50,000 to have Nicky cloned.
The cloning operation was performed by the California-based company Genetic Savings & Clone, which later closed in 2006.
The Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups denounced the cloning, saying that the $50,000 could have been better used to save some of the millions of animals euthanized each year.
The cat showed no negative side effects from the cloning.
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See also
- Pet cloning
- Carbon Copy - the first cloned pet
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