Frank and Louie, two faced cat

Frank and Louie is a cat who was born with two faces, so he has two names. Does that mean he has 18 lives It almost seems so now that he has earned a spot as the longest lived Janus cat in the new edition of the Guinness World Records (Guinness has dropped the word book from the name in this digital age). The cat s owner is a Worcester woman named Marty Stevens who has owned Frank and Louie since a local breeder brought him into Tufts Veterinary Clinic to be euthanized when he was a day old. Marty was a veterinary nurse at Tufts at the time and offered to take him home. The prognosis, however, was not good. Janus cats, named after the Roman god with two faces, are extremely rare and seldom live more than a few days after being born. Often they die within hours. But under Marty s dedicated care Frank and Louie flourished. He turned 12 years old on Sept. 8. Frank and Louie has two mouths, two noses and two normal eyes with one larger nonfunctioning eye in the center. That was the first eye to open up w