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Kitten Born With Two Faces



UPDATED: 10:11 am EST March 10, 2005

LAKE CITY, Fla. -- When Teresa Morrison's cat had a litter Tuesday, she noticed something was different about one of the kittens.

"I thought it had growth on its face," she said.

The kitten has two mouths, two noses and four eyes. She immediately called her veterinarian.

"He said he's never seen it. Never," Morrison said.

The kitten is nursing from its mother, which the vet said is a good sign.

"(She's) feeding off one mouth now; sometimes go to the other one, but he's not getting it open," Morrison said.

The vet told Morrison he didn't know if the cat has one or two brains, but having one would give the cat a better chance to survive.

He said if the kitten lives 48 hours, he has a good chance of living a full life.

Wednesday morning, Morrison named the cat "Deuce."


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Holy crap! I'm too stunned to comment.


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wow.

it's not unheard of...in fact there are quite a few animals with more than one full head. one guy actually collects "two headed" animals (which are actually conjoined twins)

heck, there's even a "two headed" child..well, they are twin girls, two heads, two arms (one controls each one) two legs (one controls each one)

it's fascinating, it really is..


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I saw a human baby like that on the news last year. The baby had two faces! The second face was like on the top of its head. What happened was, there were originally going to be two babies, probably conjoined, and then one of them didn't fully develop. They tried to do surgery but the baby didn't make it.


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Holy crap Do animals like that really live a good life?


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I have yet to hear of a two faced cat, or pig for that matter, surviving for more then a few weeks. it would be interesting if this one did.


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That's so odd...I had seen snakes and other animals with two faces...I hope the kitten survives!


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Originally Posted by katescritters
I have yet to hear of a two faced cat, or pig for that matter, surviving for more then a few weeks. it would be interesting if this one did.
i'm thinking there was a pig on animal planet with two faces that lived several years. i can't swear by it, but i really want to say there was!

there were two babies recently with two faces..one was egyptian the other was south american, can't remember what country..the south american was less recently and didn't make it, the egyptian one was more recently and last i heard she was still alive after surgery...she had a parasitic twin, the face would blink and even had some facial expressions, but was basically killing the healthy twin. Her name is Manar Maged here's a link about her:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/nat...rld_twins.html

it's a bit of a different thing, though, than what happened with the kitten.

ooh the pig's name was Ditto:
http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1998/06/08_campeye.html

what happened to the kitten is called diprosopus, what happened with the little girl in Egypt was called craniopagus parasiticus


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That's bizarre!


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All I have to say is...WOW!