sign” and after getting a clean bill of health by a veterinarian, Deucy has the best chances of joining 13-year-old Frank and Louie who has a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living two-faced cat. According to a June 12, 2013, NWCN report, Deucy’s owner is wondering with so many positive signs, if Deucy isn’t meant to be around for a while.
Two-faced kitten Deucy was born in Amity in Oregon on Tuesday. After it was rejected by its mother, owner Stephanie Durkee took over mothering the little two-faced kitten who turns out be be even stronger than its other two normal siblings.
The two-faced kitten is getting warm kitten formula every two hours with a syringe and is eating very well. She is being kept in a dresser drawer with a heating pad and towels, and as part of a kitten’s mothering job, the two-faced kitten’s owner will also most likely do the job of getting the two-faced kitten to pee; not by licking, but by using a soft wet cotton ball to stimulate its urinary tract.
Two-faced
kitten Deucy born at ‘6:11 a.m. on 6/11’: Oldest two-faced cat is 13
While
many veterinarians do not give newborn kittens, especially two-faced kittens, a
good survival chance, experience has shown that under good care, one-faced or
two-faced kittens can look forward to a long and happy life. Much depends on
the owner getting up every two to three hours to do a quite unique
"motherly" job.
The
two-faced kitten’s veterinarian has given Deucy a clean bill of health and
listening to the two-faced kitten’s cries, its lungs are working just
perfectly.
“The
kitten’s owner Stephanie Durkee took the rare little baby to the vet, who
checked her out and found everything in working order. There’s also nothing
wrong with the newborn's lungs as she’s a very vocal little kitty.”
Frank and
Louie, the two-faced cat who was born 13 years ago, like the two-faced kitten
born in Oregon, are called “Janus” cats after the Roman mythology god with two
faces.
“Janus
cats appear to be conjoined twins, but their condition is actually not the
result of incomplete separation of two embryos in the womb. It’s triggered by a
protein called sonic hedgehog homolog (SHH). Yes, there’s a protein called the
sonic hedgehog protein,” reported BuzzFeed in February of 2013 in an article
about 13-year-old two-faced cat Frank and Louie.
Like
two-faced kitten Deucy, two-faced Frank and Louie was brought into a pet
hospital when he was a just one day old. Today, two-faced Frank and Louie is 13
years old and has a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living
two-faced cat. Maybe eventually two-faced kitten Deucy will join Frank and
Louie in the Guinness Book of Records -- the world is rooting for the little
two-faced kitten.
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