In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, sits on a mat in his home in Worcester, Mass. The animal is known as a Janus cat, named for the figure in Roman mythology with two faces on one head. The owner calls the face on the left Frank, while the face on the right she identifies as Louie. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
When the two-faced cat, named Frankenlouie, was born, veterinarians thought he only had a few days to live. Frankenlouie, a cat with two faces, two mouths, two noses and three blue eyes, has surprised everyone and lived for 15 years. According to Marty Stevens, the cat’s owner, who died last week, the two-faced cat died of cancer after an autopsy at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Massachusetts.
The Frankenlouie cat is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-lived cat with a rare birth defect named after the Roman god Jenus.
