Thank you all for your good wishes concerning Betsy's return! Its a relief to have her home again.......I can tell Husband is VERY happy about the turn of events. His good helper is back.
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We're under a winter storm watch.......it appears the worst of it will be north of us, in northern Iowa and up into Minnesota, but we already had a coating of ice last evening. My son is hoping there will be no school today......we'll see.
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I'm expecting the feline scientific community to beat a path to my blog door to view this amazing phenomenon.......a two-headed cat:
This is a pair of unfriendly, long-haired fellows who hang out in the calf building. They look like identical twins.......I call them "The Uglies", mostly because of their unattractive personalities.*
Many years ago, in the summer of 1975, my parents took us on a long vacation Out West. My father knew of a two-headed calf on display in Elko, Nevada, and we did stop to view it........I was thinking it was in the lobby of an old hotel, but it may have been a bar. This webpage mentions the odd calf......it really did have two heads on one neck, as I recall.
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Stay warm and well!
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5 comments:
That is a terrific photo. It gave me a laugh. Don't think I want to see a two-headed calf though.
I'm glad Betsy came home! Those cats don't look so happy to have their picture taken, they look kinda grumpy, lol!
What a shame those cats are unfriendly. They are beautiful. I read somewhere recently that if a cat does not have loving human contact within the first 8 weeks of its life, it will never "bond" with people, and will, for all intents, be a feral cat. A sad thing for cat lovers.
Beautiful cats, even if they are "grumpies". They look like they are keeping each other warm.
The two headed calf was on display in a bar in Elko. It might have been moved later to the lobby of the old hotel. Elko is only a few hours from where we live.
When we lived and worked on a ranch in Idaho, there was a calf born with five legs. The extra leg was coming out of the shoulder area. The vet came and removed it and he figured that the calf had a twin at some point and absorbed it.
Stay warm!!
Ruth,
I surely wish I had a photo of that calf.....
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Nancy,
That's because they ARE grumpy....all the time!
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Pat,
That's very interesting about how feral cats come to be, and it makes sense. These two grouches have been around forever. We have two camps of cats around here.....the wild ones and the tame ones.
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Deserthen,
I had a feeling you might know about the calf. I still remember looking up at it.....such an unusual sight. That's interesting about the calf with the extra leg. I imagine the two-headed calf was a twin-thing gone wrong, too.
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