China's first cloned cat Garlic was transported by plane to be united with his owner in eastern China's Wenzhou on September 20.<br /><br />The video shows the cat's owner Huang Yu playing with his two-month-old cloned kitten with the surrogate cat mother in the room.<br /><br />A still picture shows the cloned kitten and the original cat, a British shorthair, side by side. In another clip, captured in January, the original cat laid in a bed and Huang Yu tenderly touches him on his nose. <br /><br />According to local reports, Garlic was cloned by a Chinese firm named Sinogene Biotechnology Company. He was born on July 21 by a surrogate mother.<br /><br />The owner Huang Yu thought his previous cat was special and could not be replaced. So he spent more than £28,000 (250,000Yuan) on getting him cloned. <br /><br />A vice manager at Sinogene said: "It is difficult to collect the ovum as cats only ovulate during mating. <br /><br />"The personality of the cat was decided by its genes and also affected by the environment, but the similarity can certainly be at least 80 per cent."<br /><br />Sinogene has cloned more than 40 pet dogs since 2017, according to agency reports.
