Cat owner, Stephanie Durkee, was surprised to discovered that her new kitten has two faces .
Unlike Venus , who has two different colored sides to her face, this little two faced kitten actually has two separate faces.
Durkee’s children reportedly ran up to her and said:
“Mom, there’s a kitty with two heads,”
To which Durkee replied:
“I think you guys are just tired, you’re crazy, that doesn’t happen.”
However, the oddity, known as a “Janus” kitten, was in fact true and left Durkee with an important job on her hands.
The new kitten, named Deucy, was rejected by her mother and is therefore being hand fed kitten formula via a syringe.
Knowing the new addition has to be hand fed, alongside her obvious deformities, seems to have made people warm to Deucy even more than they would with a normal kitten.
It seems like a literal case of the double the cuteness.
No doubt if the two faced animal had been anything other than a cute and fluffy kitten, Durkee and her children would have been running for the hills.
After all, two faced/two headed creatures tend to be something you’d expect to find in a horror film, not in real life in the form of adorable kitten goodness.
Then again, is it any surprise that Deucy has become an Internet sensation when a two faced piglet born in China managed the same feat?
Sadly though, the little pig wasn’t given good odds of survival, with the vet commenting that it would be lucky if it reached adulthood.
Luckily, Durkee received better news after her trip to the vets with Deucy.
An Oregon vet was happy to report that all was working properly and that Deucy was making steady progress despite her handicap.
Hopefully as news about Deucy the two faced kitten spreads, we will hear more about her adventures and general adjustments to life as a rare ‘Janus’ kitty.
[Image via Sky News ]
