Janus Cat Youtube Video
Probably the most unsettling animal photo and video i’ve seen I thought it wasn’t a real photo.
But it turns out that the Janus cat (janus being the name of the roman god who had 2 faces with the ability to look into the future and the past) is a cat who suffers from Disprosopus or craniofacial duplication.
It gets a little more interesting after finding out that the congenital disorder is caused by a protein called Sonic Hedgehog Homolog and is where the Sega character Sonic the Hedgehog gets his name from.
But back to the cat in the video called “Frank and Louie” is 12 years old and has become the oldest of his kind. They don’t generally live very long and “Frank and Louie” themselves were to be put down before being rescued by their current owner. Is it one cat is it two?