The trend of pet cloning had recently come up in conversation with her roommate, so the idea was fresh in her mind. She spent the night after Chai’s death feverishly researching options and found a cloning company located near her in Texas. “I didn't know anything about it besides that it was possible, so I did a bunch of research and found out that it was $25,000 at the time,” Anderson says. “I was like, you know what? That's basically like buying a car.”