Awww, isn’t he cute. Copycat the kitten is probably one of the last cloned pets to be seen following the closure of California based Genetic Savings and Clone .

The company cited lack of interest for the closure and although they have transfered customers’ “gene bank” accounts to Texas-based ViaGen, there are no plans to replicate pets.

The closure of the first company to clone and sell pet cats was good news to the US Humane Society.

“It’s no surprise the demand for cloned pets is basically non-existent, and we’re very pleased that Genetic Savings and Clone’s attempt to run a cloning pet store was a spectacular flop,” said society president Wayne Pacelle.

“The industry has no business trying to profit from people’s bonds with their pets or from efforts to engineer a new production strategy that was unnecessary, highly experimental and inhumane.”

For each successful pet cloned, dozens die prematurely or suffer painful deformities, according to Pacelle. At between $20,000 to $50,000 a cat a very pricey mistake for some.

Me personally, I think its very good news.