What animal has four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two tongues and one body? Would you believe a two-faced cat? It’s true (click here to see a picture). The kitten, born in Ohio, less than a week ago has been the topic of conversation around office water coolers throughout the country.
The cat’s owner is a young boy named Charles Roberts. Roberts tells a local Ohio television station that while he hasn’t decided on a definite name for his two-faced kitten, he is leaning towards calling it, “Tiger.”
Roberts was concerned that the two-faced kitten may not survive through its first night because it had initially refused to nurse. (The kitten eventually started to feed the next day.) In the days since, Roberts says the kitten has gotten stronger and better looking.
“I think he’s cute.” Roberts told the local news crew.
Meanwhile, the feline phenomenon is causing quiet a stir at area pet clinics. At the Ohio State University Veterinary Hospital, doctors are stunned that a cat with two faces exists. Dr. Shane Bateman said that “having a two-faced kitten is extremely rare and there’s no real explanation as to why it would have happened.”
Doctors are eager to examine the unusual kitten to see whether its two mouths flow into one throat and to locate any other anomalies it might have. They say that x-rays can determine if the kitten has duplicate organs or other life-threatening abnormalities.
In the meantime, the cat remains at home with Roberts who says he is a bit taken aback by all the attention his little kitty has garnered. Various websites are clamoring for pictures of the two-faced cat and media from around the nation are jockeying for interviews with the boy who was in his words having a “normal summer until the cat was born.”