In an interview with Variety on Tuesday, Barbra Streisand revealed that she had cloned her beloved Coton de Tulear dog, Samantha, who died last year. PETA, the organization with an uncanny knack for knowing when a famous person is behaving questionably around animals, has caught wind of the whole thing. On Tuesday, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk released a statement to Page Six on why it adamantly stands against Streisand’s decision to clone Samantha.

“We all want our beloved dogs to live forever, but while it may sound like a good idea, cloning doesn’t achieve that—instead, it creates a new and different dog who has only the physical characteristics of the original. Animals’ personalities, quirks, and very ‘essence’ simply cannot be replicated, and when you consider that millions of wonderful adoptable dogs are languishing in animal shelters every year or dying in terrifying ways when abandoned, you realize that cloning adds to the homeless-animal population crisis. And because cloning has a high failure rate, many dogs are caged and tormented for every birth that actually occurs—so that’s not fair to them, despite the best intentions. We feel Barbra’s grief at losing her beloved dog but would also love to have talked her out of cloning.”

In her Variety piece, the singer, actor, and director spoke about her hopes for Miss Scarlett and Miss Violet, whom she cloned from cells taken from Samantha’s mouth and stomach.

“They have different personalities,” Streisand says. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have [Samantha’s] brown eyes and her seriousness.”

Anyone who follows Streisand’s intimate Instagram will not be surprised that she now has two little Samanthas running around her house. In the months since the dog’s death, Streisand has posted about her late dog and the qualities in her that she misses.

Streisand’s third dog, Miss Fanny, is not cloned from Samantha, but she is a distant cousin, so it’s all in the family—or something like that.