Nina and Edgar Otto, a couple from Boca Raton, paid $155,000 to have their dog cloned from the DNA of their late dog Lancelot, which died of cancer this month.

Monday night, the Ottos picked up their cloned yellow lab puppy dog at the Miami International Airport, which was cloned from Lancelot’s DNA that was frozen five years ago in the hope that cloning pets would become possible.

The couple paid the aforementioned amount to have Lancelot cloned in a San Francisco biotech firm's dog-cloning auction last July.

Lancelot was created in South Korea by BioArts International and was born 10 weeks ago, which made him the first single-birth, commercially cloned puppy in the United States, according to the couple.

Lou Hawthorne, Chief Executing Officer (CEO) of BioArts, said that Lancelot had integrated very quickly into the family that owns another nine dogs, 10 cats, six sheep and four parrots. The Ottos are also „parents” to Roxanne, Scarlett and Cadbury - the yellow Labradors - Henry, Hayley, Cassidy and Oliver - the Cavalier King Charles spaniels - Zoe the bichon frise and Cartier, the teacup Yorkie. Nevertheless, given that they have a 12 acres property in West Boca, the family can always afford to have one more pet.

Back in July, BioArts put up for auction five dog-cloning procedures and the Boca Raton couple won the second-round auction.

Nina, 66, and Edgar, 79, said that the late Lancelot was a special dog that could read their emotions and that he was also the “crew chief” of their other dogs, always keeping them aligned.