Piff the Magic Dragon is confirming he actually spent almost $60K to clone his late dog, Mr. Piffles ... telling TMZ he's "so glad" he did.
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00:00I was at one of P Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07It was a rapper that we all know.
00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:17As Pitfalls was getting older, I was starting to think about when this might happen.
00:22And one of the things we did, which sounds kind of crazy, but I'm so glad that we did, is we cloned him.
00:29So we have Mr. Pitfalls Jr., Mr. Pitfalls 2, who's almost 2.
00:35And he has taken over the show from Mr. Pitfalls.
00:39And he'll be doing the show tonight in the place of Mr. Pitfalls.
00:44Nobody believes us.
00:45We genuinely cloned Mr. Pitfalls.
00:48It's not just a dog that looks like him.
00:50This, this is Mr. Pitfalls 2.
00:53Hi, buddy.
00:54How you doing?
00:55Oh, hi.
00:58Mr. Pitfalls 2 is 100% genetically identical to Mr. Pitfalls OG.
01:04So in a way, it's like a way for the spirit of Mr. Pitfalls to carry on.
01:08When we wanted to clone Mr. Pitfalls, I googled it.
01:11Because I heard that Barbra Streisand did it.
01:13And I was like, if it's good enough for Babs, it's good enough for Piff the Mighty Dragon.
01:18So then I found this company called Viagen.
01:21And they say they're going to clone your dog.
01:24It's really expensive.
01:26But, you know, Mr. Pitfalls and I, we've been through so much together.
01:30And he's meant so much to me.
01:31I was like, hey, whatever it costs.
01:36So we spoke to them.
01:38And we got a sample from Mr. Pitfalls when he was still alive.
01:41And they take that sample and they make a ton of like cells from it.
01:45And then they do this crazy science.
01:48And a year later, this little guy arrives.
01:53He was the understudy for a while.
01:55So, you know, he'd go in and he'd do a trick.
01:57And like we'd say in the show, hey, we're training Mr. Pitfalls 2.
02:02You know, do you guys want to meet him?
02:04And we'd bring him in and he'd do a trick.
02:06But for the last two or three months, him and Mr. Pitfalls have been altering.
02:11Can you wake up?
02:13This is television.
02:14This is what you have to do now.
02:15Don't. No.
02:17So we knew that, you know, Mr. Pitfalls was going to retire.
02:22So we had him do a whole show by himself.
02:25And then he did more and more of them.
02:27And then him and Mr. Pitfalls took it in turns.
02:29I didn't want to go forward with the act just by myself.
02:32Mr. Pitfalls is such a huge part of it.
02:34And like the things we came up with, we came up with together.
02:38You know, like the thing he does where he finds the card in dog food.
02:43Or like when we were on America's Got Talent, he like poked Heidi's ring.
02:47Or like every night in Las Vegas, he pees any drink the audience names.
02:51And like I was like, I don't want to do that with the spirit of Pitfalls.
02:56So I was really glad that we have this little guy now.
03:00You know, this is the thing about life.
03:02It's like the good is mixed with the bad.
03:04And we're devastated by losing Mr. Pitfalls.
03:07But we're also so grateful that, you know, new lives are beginning.