Kitten born with two faces is doing well

       

The Nation

January 12th, 2009

SHOCKED vets have 

delivered a kitten with 

two faces.

The kitten can only eat

with one of its mouths, 

due to a cleft palate - 

but it meows 

simultaneously 

through both.

The only member of 

an otherwise normal 

litter of three, 

it is said to be doing well.

It was born in the vet’s 

surgery after its mother 

developed complications

during the birth.

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Nurse Louisa Burgess, 

who delivered the kitten in Perth, 

Western Australia, with vet 

George Huber, said she had never 

seen a two-faced cat in 12 years 

of working in animal health.

‘I have seen cats with two 

tails and extra legs, 

but not this,’ she said.
‘It has a full tummy and it 

survived the night so that 

is a good sign. 

It seems content, 

it meows and purrs.’

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Ms Burgess added: 

‘This is the result of a 

congenital deformity. 

Something has gone wrong in 

the early embryonic development.’

One in a million cats is 

born with two heads. 

The owners plan to keep the 

kitten and are said to be 

considering calling it Mr Men 

or Quasi Modo, 

according to Australian website 

InMyCommunity.com.au.

By coincidence there has 

been another report of a 

two-faced kitten in the US 

this year. 

Born in Texas in February, 

it was part of a litter of seven.

In August a kitten with four eyes, 

two noses and one mouth 

was born in Ohio, 

but it died after five days. - DM

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