What’s the likelihood of running into a pet that looks exactly like yours? Chumchum, a programmer, explains that finding a lookalike depends on the number of choices at the stylist. Let’s suppose there are 2 colors and 3 heads you can pick from. How many possibilities will you get? The answer: 2 x 3 = 6.
However, this is the reality at the Pet Society Stylist:
Color: 31 choices
Head: 20
Ears: 22
Face: 37
Nose: 22
Eyebrows: 24
Eyes: 36
Mouth: 20
31 x 20 x 22 x 37 x 22 x 24 x 36 x 20 = 191,859,148,800
Wow! Over 191 billion possibilities! This means it is very, very, very unlikely that you run into your clone. In fact, it’s more likely that you will win a lottery or marry Brad Pitt or be adopted by Angelina.
Still, it’s always fun to see pets that look like family. Here are some images sent in by readers.
And don’t forget, I’m now looking for spooky or funny Halloween pictures for a contest. Deadline is Oct 25.
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Yay! My pet and his friend is in!!!
Thanks for explaining the odds! Tizzy is so happy to have her picture on the blog. Pembis had much of the same furniture too.
loll really low odds xD
but in reality, the odds might be be higher since certain choices are more popular than others, since not everyone follows the randomizer.
how cute! quijo and his girlfriend made it
heres another picture i took!!!! good and bad twin!!!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=753353&l=fb1c36a757&id=1112971393
that’s so cute
still haven’t found my twin hehe
My sister Cyndi and I had a great laugh over this post. She just got a pet for herself and tells me she’s going to visit the cafe quite often and find her twin….we sound like children don’t we? Me-46 yrs old, Cyndi- 43 yrs old…..our husbands think we’re nuts!! There could be worse things we could be doing….!
Deanna
I have 180 friends on PS. And I have no twin, and only one pet shares ears with mine.. ejejeje.
i just found triplets at the cafe, this was really funny to me, the same color and the same eyes
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h197/Ridderstroke/petsociety3.jpg
Hey Petfan,
That’s amazing! Did you visit these pets to find out more about them?
i did
i was just too curious to see if they have something else in common, but they didn’t 
still, it was pretty cool for me to see that
:O OMG!! that purple pet in the first picture is MY PET! ! ! thats amazing! the house in the background is definitely my house too! :O … of course, I’ve given my pet, currently named violet cheese (her name changes depending on the colour of her fur e.g red cheese) a major makeover and am now broke :/ never mind! as well as my pet looks good!
http://princesschan.blogg.se/images/2010/13334_1180840362546_1274287982_30475384_155688_n_80536893.jpg Look what I found in the cafe! You can post it on your blog if you want to…
very unlikely… even more unlikely than finding your twin