For animal-lovers, the above picture is hard to look at.

However, the newborn kitten is showing signs that it is healthy despite the fact it has two heads.

Louisa Burgess, the nurse who helped deliver the kitten said, “it has a full tummy and it survived the night so that is a good sign.  It seems content, it meows and purrs.”

Ms. Burgess and Dr. George Huber were forced to assist with the delivery when the mother cat experienced complications and was brought to the Swan Veterinary Clinic in Perth, Western Australia.

Three kittens were born, but only one got the medical teams’ attention.

“I have seen cats with two tails and extra legs, but not this,” Ms. Burgess said referring to her 12-year career.

“This is the result of a congenital deformity.  Something has gone wrong in the early embryonic development.”

The birth of a two-headed cat is not unprecedented, but exceedingly rare.   Out of 1,000,000 births, such an event will happen once.  In fact, two-faced kittens were born in 2008 in both Texas and Ohio.

The obvious question is do both mouths work?  Yes and no.

The gray and white kitten can only eat out of one mouth due to a cleft palate.  However, it can meow out of both mouths simultaneously!

The kitten’s owner intends to keep it.  They have a couple of names in mind - Mr. Men or Quasimodo.

What a lovely sense of humor.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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