Something in the way she moved attracted him like no other Maltipoo. “We called Annie’s torso dance the ‘Wiggle Waggle,’” George Spartalis recalls with sorrow of his now deceased Maltese-poodle mix.
Upon Annie’s death, Spartalis, a retired truck driver, says the pain was unbearable. “I was so devastated. I got online. I don’t know what I was looking for, but I was thinking I was gonna find a direct number to God, you know?” Tapping into that American can-do spirit, Spartalis whipped up a plan: Have the Maltipoo cloned. “Annie 2 is the same as she was before. I mean, exactly. I think she is Annie 1 come back to life. That’s what I really believe.”
