On Dec. 26, a surrogate dog gave birth to the first cloned puppy of its kind after a British couple decided to preserve the DNA of their deceased boxer, Dylan, almost two weeks after he died.

Yorkshire couple Laura Jacques and Richard Remde were so devastated by the death of their 8-year-old dog in June that they reached out to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, a laboratory that offers dog-cloning serves to the public for a price tag of roughly $100,000 per procedure.

The new cloned pup, named Chance, was delivered by Caesarean section on Saturday in Sooam’s operating room, and the dog is expected to be joined by a second puppy (also cloned from Dylan’s DNA) in three days.

“After they got him out I still couldn’t quite believe it had happened. But once he started making noises I knew it was real,” Jacques told The Guardian. “Even as a puppy of just a few minutes old I can’t believe how much he looks like Dylan. All the colourings and patterns on his body are in exactly the same places as Dylan had them.”

So far, Sooam has helped produce over 700 cloned dogs for costumers, using another dog’s DNA. Chance’s samples were taken from Dylan twelve days after he died.

“I’m trying to get my head ’round the fact that this puppy has 100% of the same DNA as Dylan,” said Jacques. “It’s quite confusing, but I’m telling myself that Chance is just like one of Dylan’s puppies.”

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