Tom Brady He was an NFL legend. The best quarterback in the history of sports. Off the field, he is a businessman who knows how to diversify and one of his investments has paid off in an unusual way. The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player revealed that he cloned his dog in partnership with Colossal.
“I love my animals, they mean the world to me and my family,” Brady said in an interview with the magazine People. “Some years ago I worked with Colossal and I took advantage of his non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw our elderly dog before she passed away”.
The former quarterback and current FOX commentator explained that Lua, his lifelong dog, died in December 2023. However, His current dog, Junie, is a clone of the previous one thanks to the biotechnology company.
Tom Brady revealed that his current dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua, who died in December 2023, per @baileykrich 🤯
The dogs were cloned by Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company that Brady is an investor in, using blood collected prior to Lua’s death pic.twitter.com/1yEYrjILqz
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 4, 2025
What does Colossal Biosciences do?
Colossal Biosciences is a biotechnology company that has tried to bring species that no longer exist from extinction. In mid-May 2025, it was announced that they had revived a species of wolf extinct 13,000 years ago.
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In addition, Colossal has just acquired another biotechnology company: Viagen Pets and Equine. This company has not only cloned Brady’s dog, but has done so with other pets of other celebrities. Such is the case of Barbsra Streisand and Paris Hilton’s pets.
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