Tom Brady has made some big decisions in his life. One of the biggest, which he recently revealed, was the decision to have his dog Lua cloned.
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According to People, Brady revealed that his young dog Junie is actually a clone of his dog Lua, a pit bull mix that passed away in 2023. Colossal Biosciences, a company that Brady invested in, performed the procedure using blood collected prior to Lua's death.
"I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family," Brady said in a statement, per People. "A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed."
This news surfaced the same day that Colossal Biosciences acquired another company, Viagen Pets and Equine. According to People, Viagen is the company that cloned Barbra Streisand's dog Samantha and Paris Hilton's dog Diamond Baby.
Colossal Biosciences is a company that, according to its website, aims to "heal the world." This company wants to focus on the de-extinction of species. It has already pursued this goal by genetically producing three dire wolf puppies using a "13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull." These puppies are currently being raised in an undisclosed nature preserve.
This is not the only de-extinction project the company has on the books. Colossal biosciences is also attempting to bring back the woolly mammoth. Technically, this will be a "cold-resistant elephant," but Colossal says that it will have the core biological traits of the woolly mammoth and the ability to live in the same ecosystem.
You don't have to do this, Tom.
There are millions of dogs out there just waiting to be adopted.
This is psychotic. https://t.co/WxHOToZZzA
— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) November 4, 2025
While Colossal has yet to bring back the woolly mammoth, it has made it possible for the rich and famous to clone their pets. As expected, this created some blowback on social media, especially from those who try to rescue dogs from shelters.
"I'm a dog guy and a Brady guy. This is weird as f—-," Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports said on X. Another person weighed in while responding, "There are dogs that need to be adopted in shelters and you're playing with creation???"
