Kitten Born With Two Faces

[Hannah]

"GROVE CITY, Ohio --
A bizarre act of nature was found in Grove City Wednesday -- a kitten was born with two faces.The kitten was born Wednesday morning. It has two mouths that meow in unison, two noses and four eyes that have not opened yet, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.

"I was playing outside in the rain. Once I came in, I saw a two-faced cat my mom was picking up. That's how I knew there was a two-faced cat," said Charles Roberts, the cat's owner.

Roberts said he hasn't decided on a name for the kitten yet, but said he wants to name it Tiger.

There are two other kittens from the litter, but there was only one cat born with two faces.

Charles said that the fact that the kitten has two faces does not bother him. What does bother him is that the kitten has not nursed since it was born.

"I think he's cute, but I don't think he's going to live because he hasn't been chewing," Roberts said.

Dr. Shane Bateman with The Ohio State University Veterinary Hospital said a two-faced kitten is extremely rare and there's no real explanation as to why it would have happened."


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Awww! It's so cute. =[

[Mecha Cow]

He's actually allowed to keep it?

[Raven]

freaky but cool!

I'll admit its cute, but I'm concerned if it will live much longer based upon the article...

[Peanut]

Didn't this exact same thing happen a couple months ago? I know there was something else with two faces and I'm pretty sure it was a kitten.

[Hannah]

Didn't this exact same thing happen a couple months ago? I know there was something else with two faces and I'm pretty sure it was a kitten.
In January a kitten was born with one eye. It died.

[iris]

Didn't this exact same thing happen a couple months ago? I know there was something else with two faces and I'm pretty sure it was a kitten.
This type of deformity is not unheard-of in cats. It usually results in death.

The one-eye thing is also a lethal deformity. (I think that one has something to do with the sonic hedgehog gene.)

[VaughnMichael]

good lord that image looks fake.:lol:

[Jo Dawn]

Yeah, I've read of cases before like this. And yes, it is cute.

Unfortunately, they usually die... But I really hope it lives.

They don't know why it happens? Isn't it the same as conjoined twins? That the two eggs get fused or don't split apart correctly?

Ugh, it's too early in the week to be thinking like this. I have a headache.

[Masked Ninja]

Yeah, I've been seeing that thing on the news. It's cute (mainly because it's a kitten) but I worry that it won't survive. Poor thing...

Though why would you name it Tiger? That's a name that everybody names their cat. Why not... Cerebus, or something else a bit more fitting?

[Ra]

I have the perfect name for it if I owned it -

Twoface! :lol: :|

Bah, all you non-Batman fans won't know what I'm laughing at...

Shame that the little fellow will probably die though. I mean, it would be cool to have a two-faced cat, but it sort of shows how the world is evolving.

"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millenia, evolution leaps forward."

[Fang Wolf]

That is very cool, but so cute...:o

How can Cat born with two face? ;)

[KROW]

I have the perfect name for it if I owned it -

Twoface! :lol: :|
I'd name it Meow-Meow, 'cause that's what noise it'd make.

[Hannah]

Yeah, I've been seeing that thing on the news. It's cute (mainly because it's a kitten) but I worry that it won't survive. Poor thing...

Though why would you name it Tiger? That's a name that everybody names their cat. Why not... Cerebus, or something else a bit more fitting?
The kid's like 8 or something.


How can Cat born with two face?
Um. I'm guessing it was going to split into twins, but didn't exactly... finish. Like conjoined twins. Only... this was much earlier than normal because they share a brain. :3

[Sewer Bull]

On a related sidenote ("weird cat faces"):

http://83.136.68.93/kitler/pics/kitler8.jpg

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

[Ra]

...okay then :blanksta:

Good thing this little guy here doesn't look like Hitler, then.

[Hannah]

Haha. xD My friend has a cat like that. It's named Hitler, as well, despite the fact that it is not a boy.

[XERO]

Name it Kaleidoscope.

[Ecto Jedi]

good lord that image looks fake.:lol:

I concur. If it hadn't come from a respectable news source, then I wouldn't have given it a second thought.