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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2006Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html This kitten was born on July 12th in Ohio, USA. The vets seem to think he/she will survive (isn't that a rare occurrence for these mutations?). I haven't been able to find any further updates about the kitten since this article was updated on 7/14. Jill > http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jill I will purr for this little bit. Erm, or get the furry overlords to. Often, animals with gross genetic abnormalities will also have internal abnormalities that kill them. Or, the mother will reject them. But it's not impossible for "Tiger" to be pretty healthy inside save for an odd doubling of the face and throat. I am glad that Tiger's owner is not rejecting him because of how he looks, and isn't giving him an awful name like Monster or some such. --Fil >> http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > --Fil The article indicated Tiger is nursing normally so the mama-cat didn't reject him/her. Must be interesting (to say the least) having two mouths on one kitten wanting to nurse! Jill >>> http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html >>> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Jill Latest that I heard, the kitten was "missing" since a 1am feeding :( http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9527078/detail.html >>>> http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html >>>> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9527078/detail.html AWWWWWW. I doubt this bodes well for the poor little one. I surely did hope this kitten would survive and have a good home. I'm lighting candles that this little one is just tucked in a closet someplace. For some reason I can picture it being beaten up on by its littermates (sadly). Purrs for the poor kitten who didn't choose to be born this way. Jill >>>>> http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >Jill This is a local story for me, and I've been following it. I'm afraid something untoward happened to the poor thing, although I really wonder if it would have survived anyway. Purrs for the little one. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:14:13 +0000, glsummer wrote: >>>>>> http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html >>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against > Animals in Movies Website) As I recall, sometime in the last year another double faced kitten was born. It lived only one day. As previously stated -- there were probably other abnormalities. Perhaps someone swiped it to study it. MLB >AWWWWWW. I doubt this bodes well for the poor little one. I surely did >hope this kitten would survive and have a good home. I'm lighting candles >that this little one is just tucked in a closet someplace. For some reason >I can picture it being beaten up on by its littermates (sadly). Purrs for >the poor kitten who didn't choose to be born this way. I've read about several two-faced kittens over the years. I remember one was given a neat name - "Image". But I've *never* heard of any of them surviving very long, so whenever I hear one of these stories, I consider it to be a sad story. >http://www.nbc10.com/health/9515335/detail.html > >This kitten was born on July 12th in Ohio, USA. The vets seem to think >he/she will survive (isn't that a rare occurrence for these mutations?). I >haven't been able to find any further updates about the kitten since this >article was updated on 7/14. Unfortunately, the kitten disappeared a couple of days later, and hasn't been seen since, according to http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=199951. Three possible theories offered in the article are that the mother cat ate the kitten, that she dragged him somewhere outside the house and abandoned him, or that some human stole the kitten. Once the kitten's birth was publicized, visitors had come to see him, and the family accidently left a door unlocked shortly before the kitten was found to be missing.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Unfortunately, the kitten disappeared a couple of days later, and > hasn't been seen since, according to [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > accidently left a door unlocked shortly before the kitten was found to > be missing. Such an animal would be worth money - I'm sure some lab would love to study it. I remember a few years ago there was a 2-headed kitten who had been pronounced healthy by a vet, and then mysteriously died. Its body was then sent to a lab, and I was always suspicious of that - like maybe the lab offered them a lot of cash. <sigh> Joyce |
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