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Two-faced kitten shocks owner, veterinarian
The News-Review
DAN TRAYLOR
June 16, 2005
It was born with four eyes, two noses, two mouths and two tongues, but it’s just one cat.
A two-faced female kitten, named Gemini, was born late Sunday night. The kitten is owned by Lee Bluetear of Glide.
“It’s like it’s got one head. Up at the front is where it’s split,” Bluetear said. “Right at the front (the faces) are basically independent.”
The two mouths appear to flow into one throat, Bluetear said.
“The vets and I both agreed that she probably has one brain,” she added.
So far, Gemini is alive and well, much stronger and drinking more milk than its first days.
“Everybody is totally amazed that this thing exists,” Bluetear said.
That includes Roseburg veterinarian Alan Ross, who examined Gemini on Tuesday. “With the three of our veterinarians here, we have a combined total of 50 years of experience,” Ross said. “We have never seen anything like this.”
Ross is cautious when he talks about Gemini’s future. He says he cannot be sure how long the kitten will survive, especially because he has not seen it since Tuesday.
“When I saw it the other day, I wouldn’t have given it more than a 10 percent chance of survival,” he said.
He said there are simply too many unanswered questions in a case like this.
But after hearing that Gemini was doing a little better, Ross said the kitten might have a better outlook.
“If this kitty makes it I’ll be extremely surprised, but happy to hear it’s doing better,” he said.
Ross said that if Gemini does survive, it might need surgery to remove some extra tissue in between the two mouths.
Bluetear, 40, has lived in the Glide area for six years, and has been breeding different kinds of animals, starting with dogs, since 1980.
But about three years ago, she discovered a litter of smaller than normal kittens she calls “miniature cats.” She now has plans to market the miniature cats on the Internet.
The miniatures grow to about 3 1/2 to 5 pounds, Bluetear said. Gemini was born to a miniature mother and a full-size father.
“She’s going to have a maximum weight of five pounds,” Bluetear said.
Bluetear is aware that her kitten might not live a full life.
“I kind of feel sorry for her, because I can’t know for a fact if she’s going to live or die,” she said. “If she makes it, she should be a perfectly normal and healthy cat. Other than having two faces.”

Can't stand to look at that kitten.  It's gross.  I've heard about the breeding of small cats.  Actually, they're normal size but with real short legs.  It was said they don't know how these short legs will eventually affect these cats, as the short leg genes also regulate the heart genes to a certain degree.  When man starts manipulating genes, watch out.  God KNEW what He was doing.  Man experiments.  Frightening!

Our food chain is now being manipulated.  A thousand years from now, a human won't be human, but he won't know it.  Well, that's just my opinion.  Can you imagine (they're doing it) taking a gene from a human and injecting it into a tomato?  A future of synthetic food and synthetic humans! :(

Yuck .... wouldn't that be akin to cannabalism?


There are naturally occuring genetic defects in animals that cause dwarfs, midgets and miniatures (teacups). These defects have occured in animals for thousands of years. Breeders for the most part just make use of this occurance by breeding them again and again into each other. Its not the same as gene transferrence. It used to be that breeders would recognize these defects as unacceptable and would destroy the animal instead of making use of it.

This is the way that Teacup Poodles came into being. The problem with this is that other genetic defects accompany this and the health of the animal suffers. This cat is just one of those examples.

Please nix my last sentence since the injection of genes won't make us synthetic.  I was thinking of something else along this line--------chemicals in our food, not the genes.  

Sorry for the CORNfusion! ;D

God only knows what's it's akin to PR.  I say yuck, also. When I typed it, I was thinking along those same lines.

I remember hearing about the naturally occurring defects and the tiny poodles.  I had forgotten.  I'm talking about the deliberate injection (transferrence) of genes. This is some scary stuff.

Maybe not any more so than a human chewing their fingernails...
But it sounds strange, very strange...
Maybe that is where the singing vegetables in Veggie Tales came from??

I would not like to keep a cat like that. Even if it survived and became a good pet, it would horrify me; I don't think I could let it in my lap, perhaps I wouldn't even pet it; I certainly wouldn't let it in my bed...
 :-[ Poor little kitten; its not her fault!

awww poor kitty. :( thats so sad. :'(