--- ---  # Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Beloved Dog Proving She's One Step Ahead of Us All  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 27, 2018 8:38 PM UTC  Barbra Streisand attends "Tribeca Talks: Storytellers" during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Borough of Manhattan Community College on April 29, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images) Barbra Streisand attends "Tribeca Talks: Storytellers" during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Borough of Manhattan Community College on April 29, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)Taylor Hill—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 27, 2018 8:38 PM UTC The [music, the mem’ries, the magic](https://www.netflix.com/title/80203522) — and the science — are all coming together for Barbra Streisand and her dogs Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett these days. Streisand revealed in a new interview with [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2018/film/news/barbra-streisand-oscars-sexism-in-hollywood-clone-dogs-1202710585/) that she had mouth and stomach cells from her beloved Coton de Tulear dog Samantha preserved for [cloning](http://time.com/vault/issue/1997-03-10/page/1/) after Samantha passed away in 2017 at the ripe old age of 14\. Streisand, clearly, was smitten with her beloved pet — so much so that she decided to try out the scientific approach in bringing her genetically-identical descendants to life. So far so good with Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett, it seems. (Streisand also has a third Coton de Tulear, Miss Fanny, who is a “distant cousin” of Samantha and her cloned descendants.) “They have different personalities,” Streisand told _Variety_ about her two fluffy white pups. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her brown eyes and her seriousness.” Although the Streisand interview includes many revelations about the legendary actress and her life (she’s been on the set of the upcoming [_A Star Is Born_](http://time.com/4455444/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-a-star-is-born/) film starring Lady Gaga, and thinks it’s “good;” she’s been looking at some potential new directing gigs of her own), it is the parenthetical revelation about her pets that has the internet talking. > [](https://twitter.com/BrianAcunis/status/968511257958584322) > [](https://twitter.com/MarcSnetiker/status/968559487249301504) > [](https://twitter.com/BitOfJules/status/968558969118773249) > [](https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/968569260258848771) > [](https://twitter.com/ElliottcMorgan/status/968574423363043328) > [](https://twitter.com/LinkVoximilian/status/968572413909831680) > [](https://twitter.com/faithchoyce/status/968571377115578368) Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog Because Why Wouldn't You ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5178135/barbra-streisand-cloned-dog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5178135/barbra-streisand-cloned-dog/"},"headline":"Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Beloved Dog Proving She's One Step Ahead of Us All","datePublished":"2018-02-27T20:38:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:58.851Z","description":"Samantha lives! Well, sort of","url":"https://time.com/5178135/barbra-streisand-cloned-dog/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854483245238a4f2/69892909fb4eac7bb4895d65/barbra-streisand.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854483245238a4f2/69892909fb4eac7bb4895d65/barbra-streisand.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 Tribeca Film Festival - Screenings And Parties","caption":"2017 Tribeca Film Festival - Screenings And Parties","creditText":"Taylor Hill—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5178135/barbra-streisand-cloned-dog/","name":"Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Beloved Dog Proving She's One Step Ahead of Us All"}}]}] ```