A kitty with two faces , dearly known as Biscuits and Gravy , was born lately last week and apace captured the cyberspace ’s heart . unluckily , the lilliputian kitten died just three daylight after his birthing due to complication related to his unusual shape .
Biscuits and Gravy was birth on May 20 along with a bedding of three other kittens . have it away as Biscuits for unretentive , the kitten was notably small than its siblings and , perhaps most plain , he had duplicated facial features – two mouths , two noses , and four eye – which were break into two parts across his face .
The proprietor , the King family from Oregon , shared photos of their extremely special kitten on Facebook where he gained widespread attention .
“ We are doing everything we can for the little truelove and he is quite a scrapper . Thank you all for fuck this piddling one , he is a favorable little kitty , ” they posted onFacebook on May 23 .
Speaking toCBS News , the King family said they contacted their vet and learned there was n’t much they could do , medically speaking , for the kitten . For its first couple of day , Biscuits appeared to be doing remarkably well too with a healthy appetite . But despite this early optimism , the kinsperson announced that Biscuits and Gravy had passed away on May 25 .
“ He was hold with the long of betting odds and by live intimately 4 days , he beat those odds , ” their owners posted in a short protection onFacebook .
The kitten was carry withdiprosopus , aka craniofacial duplicate , a congenital defect in which the fetus uprise duplicated facial feature film . In some peculiarly rare grammatical case , they might have replicate brain social structure too . The precise causa of the condition is debate among scientists , but it ’s widely believed to happen during embryogeny due to the excessive production of a specific protein called SHH , known as the Sonic the HedgeHog protein , which is a chemical signal that ’s essential for embryonic development .
Cats with this condition are sometimes known as " Janus cat " as a hat tip to the two - face Roman god Janus . The circumstance is known tooccur in humans too , but it ’s exceptionally rarified with only a few dozen cases documented since records begin . Humanswith the condition are typically stillborn or decease at a very young age , although there are instance of other animals with diprosopus experiencing foresighted and happy lives . The phonograph recording for the oldest living Janus khat goes toFrank and Louie , who died at the ripe one-time age of 15 in 2014 .
