Fang and Fluffy can be disturbingly born again for a mere $50,000. A company called Genetic Savings & Clone is cloning pets. And a fine job they’re doing. Tabouli and Baba Ganoush, the kittens seen here, were born to surrogate mothers, reported Reuters yesterday (via msnbc.msn.com) – yet they’re identical! Though the method of reproduction at GS&C may be safer and more efficient than traditional methods (are there already traditional methods of cloning?), the company hasn’t opened its labs for scientific review or inspection by cloning experts.

The company is less interested in the scientific questions and medical promise of cloning and more interested in its business model — helping people make copies of their beloved pets.

For fifty large a pop.