If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Two-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 |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
jmcquown wrote: 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 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 |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
Enfilade wrote:
jmcquown wrote: 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 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 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 |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
jmcquown wrote:
Enfilade wrote: jmcquown wrote: 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 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 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 Latest that I heard, the kitten was "missing" since a 1am feeding http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9527078/detail.html |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:32:59 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote: 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...p?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. -- John F. Eldredge -- 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 |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
John F. Eldredge wrote:
Unfortunately, the kitten disappeared a couple of days later, and hasn't been seen since, according to http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news...p?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. 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 |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:22:26 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote: Magic Mood JeepŠ wrote: jmcquown wrote: Enfilade wrote: jmcquown wrote: 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 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 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 Latest that I heard, the kitten was "missing" since a 1am feeding 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 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....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
"jmcquown" wrote:
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. |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Two-faced Kitten Born in Ohio
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:14:13 +0000, glsummer wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:22:26 -0500, "jmcquown" wrote: Magic Mood JeepŠ wrote: jmcquown wrote: Enfilade wrote: jmcquown wrote: 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 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 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 Latest that I heard, the kitten was "missing" since a 1am feeding 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 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....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) 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 |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
4 days with my kitten.. please help :) | [email protected] | Cats - misc | 12 | January 18th 05 04:39 AM |
4 days with the kitten... please help me :) | [email protected] | Cats - misc | 4 | January 16th 05 02:50 AM |
Feral kitten and litter box | Priscilla Ballou | Cat health & behaviour | 90 | September 1st 04 12:34 AM |
stupid, stupid neighbor | -L. : | Cat health & behaviour | 51 | August 30th 04 05:21 AM |
Gem the Gray Kitten (long) | Annie Benson-Lennaman | Cat anecdotes | 21 | August 25th 03 01:02 AM |