Venus the Two Faced Cat is a viral cat upon the internet due to its appearance of one side being black coloured with a green eye and the other side being orange coloured and having a blue eye.
Origin
The first appearance had appeared upon the internet were pictures of the cat which resulted in people claiming that it is fake and the photos were possibly photoshopped. However under the name VenusMommy, videos of the cat started to appear on the channel proving to the world and the internet that the images were not edited and that the cats appearance is real.
Terminology
The name for the cat is from the name of ‘Venus: The Two Faced Goddess’ which includes the story of Venus where here appearance is differed from the Day and the Night.
Popularity
The cat had started to recieve popularity over the internet as being one of the recent most searched cat over the internet with its own FaceBook page, which the cats owner had decided to upload more videos of her.
The cat had recently appeared on the Today Show.
Medical Condition of the Cat
The cats appearance was mentioned on the National Geographic which showed the solution to the mystery of the double, faced cat by Leslie Lyons who is a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies the genetics of cats.
Within her studies, she mentions that:
“She is extremely, extremely rare, but you can explain it and you can understand it.” Many reports about Venus refer to the cat as a “chimera.” In mythology, a chimera is a mishmash monster made up of parts of different animals. A feline chimera is a cat whose cells contain two types of DNA, caused when two embryos fuse together.
"Among cats, “chimeras are really not all that rare,”. In fact, most male tortoiseshell cats are chimeras. The distinctively mottled orange and black coat is a sign that the cat has an extra X chromosome."
“But female cats, said Lyons, already have two X chromosomes so they can sport that coat without the extra X. That means Venus is not necessarily a chimera.”
With the mystery of the eyes:
“Absolute luck,” One theory: perhaps the black coloration was randomly activated in all the cells on one side of her face, while the orange coloration was activated on the other, and the two patches met at the midline of her body as she developed."