Update: Four-Eared Kitten Finds 'Normal' Home

Phew:

A four-eared German kitten has been given a new home after
a German animal shelter was deluged with requests to adopt the animal
born six months ago with the genetic defect.
[...]
Lilly, born on a farm near the winter resort town famous for hosting
the 1936 Winter Olympics, has an extra pair of slightly smaller,
non-hearing ears just behind the normal two. Vets have attributed the
phenomenon to a gene malfunction. "The front ears are completely normal
while the two ears directly behind them are about half the size and not
fully developed," a worker at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen animal shelter
said. Tessy Loedermann, head of the shelter, said Lilly will first be
neutered and held at the shelter for another two weeks. Loedermann said
the black-and-white cat with the extra set of ears was "not a freak"
but rather an energetic, loving and well-adjusted kitten. "She is not a
mutant," Loedermann said. "She's just a plain and ordinary kitten."

If by "plain and ordinary" you mean "has four ears", then yeah, she's perfectly normal.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 26, 2004 at 12:20 PM | Permalink