Pet-cloning is real, and people with the funds to do are making living replicas of their beloved fur-babies and preserving their pets’ bloodlines for generations.

The choice to clone a pet comes with a heavy price tag -- around $35,000 for cats, $50,000 for dogs and $85,000 for horses, according to ViaGen, a Pets & Equine company based in Texas and does the cloning of the animals.

The process is performed by a veterinarian harvesting a skin sample from the animal once it dies, then implanting and growing a cloned embryo in the uterus of a surrogate dog.

On the TODAY show Monday, various pet-owners spoke of their experience where they decided to go through with a pet-cloning process.

Courtney Udvar-Hazy cloned her dog, Willow, resulting in six clones being born in a litter from the surrogate dog. She now has “Phoenix,” one of the clones which is somewhat of an “identical twin” to Willow by sharing similar genetics.

“Willow was just insanely special. She was my soul dog. I wanted her bloodline and her legacy to continue,” Udvar-Hazy told TODAY. “I went into it with zero expectation. I knew that it would be similar to identical twins in humans. Completely different animal, completely different soul, completely different personality, but genetically identical.”

A service manager for ViaGen, Melain Rodriguez told TODAY that, “T​hese are very special pets that the client loves above everything else, and it’s a member of the family for them.”

Kelly Anderson, another person who cloned her pet, told TODAY, “Someone might go out and find a lot of value in buying a car. I found a lot of value in carrying on a piece of my cat.”

The trend has become increasingly popular among social media influencers who are spreading the word about keeping their pets' bloodlines alive for future generations.