Korean scientists have cloned two puppies for a heartbroken British couple by using the skin tissues from the dead pet dog, chinanews.com reported.

Laura Jacques and her partner, Richard Remde, came from Yorkshire. Jacques said that "her heart melted" when she heard the sound of little puppies.

It was the first case that scientists had where cells have been taken from a dead dog. However, experts said that cloned dog's life span would be much shorter than normal dogs, and they might be suffering from a variety of genetic disorders, too.

The couple’s boxer dog, Dylan, died of heart disease in June, leaving Jacques bereft. To commemorate their beloved pet dog, the couple decided to take a skin sample from Dylan and sent it personally by Remde to Sooam Biotech Research in South Korea in the hope that scientists there can clone him.

When Jacques learned that the institute could clone Dylan for them, she immediately decided to spend £ 67,000 for a try.

After the first failure, Remde flew to South Korea for the second time with sample taken from Dylan, twelve days after it died, far exceeding the 5-day expire time for collecting samples. Fortunately, Korean scientists succeeded this time.