Upset that you are likely to outlive your pet? Fear not, a Korean firm is going into the business of pet cloning. When tiddles or fido drops dead, you can just order up a replacement.

Interestingly the company is also planning to go into the business of producing clones of clever creatures such as dogs that are especially good at sniffing our explosives. What’s the betting they are also looking at champion race horses? A wide horizon of possibility stretches before us.