Scientists associate this with a genetic malfunction, and the owner of the animal is convinced that an unusual creature took her diseases.
- I took it in my arms: clean - the cat licked him, such a pretty one. I told him: "Yes, dear, what's wrong with you?" And when I saw: six paws in front, the seventh - on the back. The tails are in different directions. The body is like two kangaroos looking at each other. The head is one, and the mouth is in half. I cradled him all the time. I tried to revive. If it worked, it would be something! I would have presented it to the Kunstkamera in Moscow! - this is how Galina Zakharova, a pensioner from the Voronezh region, recalls an event that happened in her life on the night of September 27.
SPIRATED WITH SPIRIT AND PUT IN A BOX
The 79-year-old resident of the village of Panino turned out to be the mistress of a cat, which gave birth to an amazing offspring: two ordinary kittens, and the third is a mutant. The animal really has seven legs, two tails, one head, but two mouths.
- That evening I was spinning around the house until midnight, then I fell asleep. And when she opened her eyes, two kittens suck their mother's milk, and another one stands in the corner on their paws. I thought - I was killed. A few days before, the cat had tried to jump out of the window and hit its belly. For a long time then lay on my bed. Maybe she would have lamented here, but I taught her to do her business in a box.
When Galina Mitrofanovna took the kitten, he was dead. Most likely, he was born that way. The unusual animal interested the woman, so she did not rush to get rid of it. She sprinkled the corpse with "old perfume" and put it in a cardboard box left over from tea. By the way, the woman even weighed the kitten. If the measuring instruments of Galina Zakharova do not junk, then the weight of the animal is only 90 grams. The woman says, there are only bones in the legs and back: where does more come from?
Newspaper * Our Land * / Olga Goryushkina.
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SAVED ME FROM DEATH
While others were discussing the very fact of the birth of a mutant kitten, the pensioner continued to sort out versions of the birth of an unusual animal. Once Galina Mitrofanovna analyzed the facts of the last months all night and this is what she came to:
- During the year I fell three times, the last one was the most serious. Thought deadly. So it hit the concrete, everything just came off. She lay on the ground and shouted: "Help." I live alone. There were no neighbors at home, I don't even remember how I crawled to my place. I lay there for a month, my son brought me food, fed the cat. And she, when we were alone, lay down on the body in the region of the heart. So she saved me from death. She took everything on herself, and after that she lamented, - recalls Galina Zakharova.
The healer cat did not have a nickname for its entire short life (the animal is about two years old). The pensioner says, they say, nothing took root. But just a couple of days ago, the woman decided that the animal should be given a symbolic name. Now the cat's name is Vanga.
In addition, according to the woman, her cats give offspring only on important Orthodox holidays, for example, Easter and Trinity. This time - at the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord. Although the woman calls herself “a pupil of godless generations,” she does not drown or kill animals, especially those born on such days, but tries to distribute them every time. Considering that besides Vanga, there is one more purring creature - her mother, and she gave offspring 31 times, it is very difficult to attach all the kittens.
GIVE TO EXPERIENCE
As for the mutant kitten's body, Galina Zakharovna continues to store it in a tea box. She lies in a cool place. Smells nothing (as the pensioner assures). But if in Panino it gets warmer up to +22 degrees, as forecasters promise, then the corpse will have to be alcoholized. For this, the woman has already prepared a can and a bottle of vodka.
- I've already admired the kitten, but it's a pity to throw it away. I would give it to some experiments. So, whoever asks first, he will be! - concluded the woman.
EXPERT OPINION
ONE CASE FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSANDS
The birth of a mutant kitten was commented on by Vladimir Obryvkov, associate professor of the Voronezh State Agrarian University, a specialist in genetics and anatomy. According to the scientist, this phenomenon is called "two-faced Janus": one head - two muzzles. A special case of Siamese twins.
- In this case, we can talk about a failure of the genetic text. At the early stage of the division of a fertilized egg - a zygote - division into two organisms took place, but not completely. This can happen in the head or tail end. In this case, it turns out that the organism develops as one, but it has two separate parts. The frequency of such cases is low. One case in several hundred thousand, more specifically - it is necessary to clarify. Most often it happens in piglets, it also occurs among calves, - Vladimir Alexandrovich explained. - Now I will say it in a pseudo-scientific language. I noticed that even over the years there are coincidences for such cases. Several years ago there were two calves at once with two heads and two tails. This spring, an unusual calf was also brought to me from the Ostrogozhsky district: one head, two muzzles. And then there's the kitten!
Some experts call the most likely reason for the birth of a mutant animal related crossbreeding. But Vladimir Obryvkov does not believe that this is a necessary factor for the development of the anomaly.
- It was not just a rare gene that manifested itself here, but a violation of the body axis. There is such a concept "adhesion" - this is the adhesion of cells, which leads to the formation of certain regular structures. Here, probably, the functions of adhesion in a separate area decreased.
ANNA GREBENKINA