A rare two faced kitten has been born in Oregon. The rare kitten has four eyes, two noses and two mouths that meow loudly from both ends. Yahoo News reported that the rare kitten was born in Amity on Tuesday and is owned by Stephanie Durkee who also owns the kitten's mother. She reportedly took the two-faced kitty to the vet who said that the kitten was healthy.
The Guardian reported that the kitten meows from both of it's tiny mouths, loudly. The kitten, whose name is Deucy, has reportedly been rejected by her mother so she has been given warmed kitten formula from a syringe by Durkee.
"The kids ... came in and said, 'Mom there's a kitty with two heads,'" Durkee said to Portland's KGW-TV which is an NBC affiliate. "And I said, 'I think you guys are just tired, you're crazy, that doesn't happen.'"
"While the birth of a two-faced kitten -- often called a Janus cat -- is rare, it has happened before. A black cat with two faces, who was aptly named Harvey Dent, was welcomed into the world in February 2012, but died two days later due to complications. In July, another two-faced kitten, this one named Gemini, also died within days of his birth, likely because he had issues eating with two tracheas and one throat," reported The Huffington Post. "Two-faced cats-known as Janus cats, for the two-faced Roman god who also gave us the word "January"-are unusual but not unprecedented."
Most of the time, two-faced cats don't have a long survival rate. But there are cases where they do. The Huffington Post reported that in 2011, a two headed cat was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest living Janus cat at 12 years old.
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