Duo, now a little over 3 months old, was born with a congenital defect called diprosopus, and has two operational faces
It’s not every day you encounter a kitten with two faces, even if you’re a veterinarian who’s highly experienced with all things feline. Dr. Ralph Tran had one of these rare encounters a little over three months ago, when a friend introduced him to a tiny kitten her cat had just given birth to.
Fortunately, Tran has plenty of experience caring for neonatal kittens, having previously worked at the ASPCA kitten nursery in Manhattan. He agreed to bring the kitten — whom he promptly named Duo, for obvious reasons — on the road with him to join the rest of his cat menagerie . She isn’t the only cat to have been born with this condition: one two-faced cat named Frank and Louie lived to the ripe old age of 15 . But, sadly, most cats who are born this way don’t live longer than a few days.After arriving at his new California home, Tran continued feeding his little patient every few hours — Duo had to be tube-fed, and later syringe-fed, because she wouldn’t drink from a bottle.
“It was roughly around eight weeks of age, maybe nine weeks, when she started recognizing the other cats, toys, and me,” he explains. “Now she runs [over] when she sees me.”
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