Couple paid £40,000 to clone dog that saved pregnant woman from rattlesnake

Couple paid £40,000 to clone dog that saved pregnant woman from rattlesnake

The couple said new puppy Ziggy is indistinguishable from the original (Picture: SWNS) Marley moved across the country with the couple as they graduated from university and embarked on careers (Picture: SWNS) The family decided to clone Marley when their daughters were five and three (Picture: SWNS)David and Alicia, 37, quickly fell in love with eight-week-old Marley when the dad-of-two got him when he was a student in 2002.

From the archive: Britain’s most exclusive doghouse, 1991

From the archive: Britain’s most exclusive doghouse, 1991

reporter, Martin Plimmer, went along to Alicia and Bill Eykyn’s Featherbed Country Club for Dogs in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire – where pets can stay for £125 a week, or £265 in today’s money (or to put it another way, four times as much as my student room cost at the time) – to find out about this piece of ‘canine heaven’.