Kitten born with two faces

[Legs]

Video of the poor little critter here (http://www.thekcrachannel.com/family/4268157/detail.html#)

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0309/4268187_200X150.jpg

[viscousmemories]

Um... ew?

[livius drusus]

That's really sad. I wonder what his little brain is like? I don't suppose a double face necessarily means anything at all about the organ behind it. Are they conjoined twins or is it just a mutation on a single cat?

[Shake]

Another escapee from the EAC labs...

[Dragoon]

Major ugly monstrosity. Hope it wasn't viable and expired on its own.

Back "in the good old days" something like that coming out of your cat could get the whole family burned at the stake. :fuming:

[JoeP]

It sounds like it could have been viable. But it's dead (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=33913)

[Legs]

It sounds like it could have been viable. But it's dead (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=33913)

Well, I'm really sad about that JoeP :(

[Legs]

another one (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5195172.ece), 3 years later

1327 days to be exact :2faces:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00436/CAT_PIXEL_SIZE_385X_436424a.JPG

[Doctor X]

I don't suppose a double face necessarily means anything at all about the organ behind it.

It usually does . . . "brain follows the face" is more than just a prejudice about "funny looking" . . . the face comes together around the same time the brain is "coming together" to make a long complex story short. A fuck-up in development can then lead to problems in different systems after that. This is why some conditions like Trisomy 21--"Mongoloidism"--leads to mental retardation, brain structural abnormalities, cardiac abnormalities, facial abnormalities, hand abnormalities, et cetera.

Usually, in human, it is two twins becoming conjoined rather than a "split" that results in two heads developing. That is very hard to do, obviously, which is why it is not seen.

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

:brooding: for not realizing the age of the posts.

Spanks, Legs, for:

http://skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/uploads/eatbabies.gifT3h D34dly Thr34d N3cr0m4ncy!!11!!http://skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/uploads/eatbabies.gif

[Legs]

:alarm: non native smilie :alarm:




okay, it's adblocked now, all is well again. :peace1:


I am sure liv will be interested in your post, even 1327 days later. :nod: if not give her a lemon danish.

[Doctor X]

Adblocked your smiley. . . .

--J.D.

[livius drusus]

I was interested, thankfully, so no need to threaten me with the lemon danish.

[Legs]

It was either that or a cilantro popover.

[livius drusus]

so mean

[Ymir's blood]

Kitten passed away. :(

[Legs]

:sniffle:

[Ensign Steve]

:sadcheer:

[BrotherMan]

Get ready for teh cuteness. KITTEH BORN WIF WINGS! (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30967440/)

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Sections/TVNews/Today%20show/Today%20Pets/2009/05%20-%20May/cat_wings.widec.jpg

so jealous.me too
... .. ...:2faces:

[Adam]

While some think the bony limbs may be a mutation of some kind...others speculate it's a genetic change...

:facepalm:

Also, WANT.

[livius drusus]

I'll take the debil cat (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17556&) over the angel cat any day.

[Leesifer]

Both of them are :aww: but the debil cat just has the best face too!