Living cells, taken from a simple skin biopsy, can be preserved for decades. Whether you decide to clone in five years or in twenty, the option stays open. Without those cells, it closes, usually within a few days.
Preservation costs $2,000. The decision to clone can wait as long as you need.
This is the best possible position to be in, and there is no rush. A vet takes a small skin biopsy during an ordinary appointment, we culture the cells, and they wait in liquid nitrogen for as long as you want them to.
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Freezing destroys every cell and ends all options permanently. Keep the body cold, at about 39 °F, and contact us now. We have succeeded with samples collected five days after death when the body was kept properly cold.
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If the body was frozen or buried, cloning is unfortunately no longer possible, and we would rather tell you so at the start. If it has been kept in the refrigerator and only a few days have passed, write to us and we will look at your situation with you.
Ask about your situation →Cloning cannot be done from DNA alone. Not from hair, not from a swab, not from a saved blood sample. It requires living cells, and the cells of choice are fibroblasts, which live in the skin.
A small skin biopsy, about the size of a pencil eraser, is taken by a veterinarian. In our laboratory those cells are grown in culture over three to four weeks until there are several million of them. They are then frozen in liquid nitrogen at −320 °F, where biological time effectively stops. They can wait there indefinitely.
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Every cell in your animal's body carries its complete genome in the nucleus. Once the skin cells are cultured and preserved, the nucleus of one of those cells is transferred into a donor egg cell, called an oocyte, from which the original nucleus has been removed. The reconstructed cell is then stimulated to divide and grows into an embryo.
The embryo is carried to term by a surrogate mother, exactly as in IVF. The puppy or kitten that is born has the same genome as your animal. Nothing is added, edited or modified: the clone is a natural animal, carrying the DNA your pet already had.
An identical twin of your animal, born at a different time. Same genome, same breed characteristics, same color, same build, same voice. Where your pet had a distinctive marking, the clone will almost always have it too, although animals with irregular spots can show small differences in their placement, because pigment cells move during development.
Temperament is substantially genetic and most owners recognize their animal in the clone quickly. We will not promise you more than that.
It is not the same individual coming back. Memory is not genetic. The clone will not remember you, your home, the walk you always took, or the sound of your car. It will not have the habits your animal built over a lifetime with you.
If what you want is your animal, as it was, we cannot give you that and nobody can. If what you want is that animal's twin, raised by you from the beginning, that is exactly what this is.
Tell us where you are and whether your animal is alive, ill or recently gone. We answer personally, usually within hours, by WhatsApp, Telegram or email.
It is a routine procedure any veterinarian can do. We send you the full written protocol to bring to your appointment, and your vet can contact us if they have any questions.
Refrigerated, by overnight courier, using the instructions we provide. Never frozen.
Three to four weeks. We tell you as soon as we see the cells growing, usually within the first two weeks.
In liquid nitrogen, for as long as you want.
We handle everything from there with our cloning partner Sinogene, one of the world's leading pet cloning laboratories.
Today was probably one of the worst days of my life. This is the only thing that made it better.
Catalina, United StatesI thank you a thousand times for your help in our distress, which lets us hope to find again a part of the ball of fur we love so much.
Serge, FranceThanks for the update and for your great professionalism throughout the process. I am really happy that everything went smoothly.
Antonio, ItalyThank you so much for your kindness, responsiveness and genuine involvement in helping us. It means more to us than I can express.
Irina, RussiaThank you for your kind support at my worst moment of 2025.
Gabor, SpainIncludes the cell culture, quality verification, cryopreservation and the first year of storage.
All prices in US dollars.
$48,000 if the cells are already preserved with us.
Preservation is charged whether or not the cells grow. The work and the laboratory time are the same either way, and we would rather say that plainly now than argue about it later.
Dr. François-Xavier Pellay is a research scientist who has spent more than twenty years on why cells age and what can be done about it. He has discovered new molecules, developed methods to restore function in aging cells, and leads Bimini Biotech, where that research continues in AFI+, an autologous fibroblast therapy. Fibroblasts, the cells preserved here, are the cell type he has worked with longest.
Bimini Pet came out of the limits of that work. Aging science is moving, but not fast enough for the animal in front of you today. Preserving living cells is what can be done now, while the rest catches up.
He founded Bimini Pet in 2022 and has since worked with about a hundred families, most of them at the hardest moment of their animal's life. He answers the messages himself.
Cloned animals are, as far as anyone has been able to measure, ordinary animals. They are not born old, they do not have shortened lives, and they are vaccinated, health-checked and documented like any other puppy or kitten.
They travel to you once vaccination and import rules allow. Under CDC rules, a dog brought into the United States from abroad must be at least six months old, microchipped and registered with the CDC Dog Import Form. Cats follow different rules. We will tell you exactly what applies to your animal before you commit to anything.
You do not have to decide anything today. If your animal is alive, the first step is a conversation and a routine appointment with your vet. If your animal has just died, the first step is a refrigerator and a message to us.
We reply personally, in English or French.
