Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dead Dog Twice According to Variety, the singer had her 14-year-old Coton de Tuléar dog Samantha cloned twice before she died last year. The dog's names are Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. They got their names after Streisand dressed the dogs in red and lavender to tell them apart. Streisand,75, has a third dog named Miss Fanny, a reference to her 'Funny Girl' character, Fanny Brice. Barbra Streisand, (Variety) All three dogs appear frequently in Streisand’s Instagram feed.