Frank and Louie shared a single brain, but no one could agree on how many faces the cat had.
His owner gave each side a name: Frank on the left, Louie on the right. He was born with two noses, two mouths, and three blue eyes, although only one mouth really worked because the other had no lower jaw. A single esophagus connected both mouths to the same stomach, and the middle eye, the third one, never blinked or helped him see.
Most Janus cats — named after the two-faced Roman deity — die within a few days of birth. Frank and Louie did not. He reached adulthood and became the longest-lived Janus cat ever recorded. Armelle deLaforcade of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine summed it up this way: the condition is extremely rare, and for this cat to reach adulthood healthy is simply extraordinary.
