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Cody Dawg · 09:59 AM

Does anyone have any opinion as to why there are so many freaky animals nowadays? They used to be rare and an oddity and now they are more and more common.

Link.

He posted a story about a two-faced kitten a few days ago also. Interesting, eh? But, why does this sort of thing happen? Environmental pollutants or random genetic mutations?

turtle777 · Jun 20, 2005, 09:59 AM

-t

Cody Dawg · Jun 20, 2005, 10:01 AM

Just for you turtle -

Recreational Poster · Jun 20, 2005, 10:01 AM

Ewww. I so did not need to see that 2-headed kitten pic.

nredman · Jun 20, 2005, 10:06 AM

like the five assed monkey??

Cody Dawg · Jun 20, 2005, 10:06 AM

I like your name. Are you really Zimph in disguise?

I wonder what other animals were born with weird deformities.

Cody Dawg · Jun 20, 2005, 10:10 AM

Two-faced calf.

"Unique", who is a cow, is owned by Virginia Hale.

Hale said the 57-pound calf is friendly, healthy, and laps water by using both tongues. Not only are there two mouths, but a third eye, which blinks, is next to the ear.

wdlove · Jun 20, 2005, 10:14 AM

The puppy looks happy. But his condition makes me very sad.

Recreational Poster · Jun 20, 2005, 10:15 AM

Ok, I am so not visiting this thread any more.

Cody Dawg · Jun 20, 2005, 10:28 AM

Three headed frog - is it all just a coincidence and part of nature?

Mark Larr · Jun 20, 2005, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Well now I can say that I have heard of "as happy as a puppy with two peters".

ambush · Jun 20, 2005, 02:45 PM

"HE BITE ME IN VAGINA..."
"HE BITE IN LABRADOR PENIS!!"

http://movies.collegehumor.com/media.../dog_bites.wmv

Mark Larr · Jun 20, 2005, 02:49 PM

The bity little dog's name is Happy?

AHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Mithras · Jun 20, 2005, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by ambush

http://movies.collegehumor.com/media.../dog_bites.wmv

That may be the single best piece of television I've ever seen.
Thank you.

The Godfather · Jun 20, 2005, 06:20 PM

Mr Winkle!

FulcrumPilot · Jun 20, 2005, 06:32 PM

http://www.channel4.com/health/micro...d/history.html

ManOfSteal · Jun 20, 2005, 08:29 PM

ghporter · Jun 20, 2005, 08:44 PM

Cody, this kind of oddity has been occuring forever. Incomplete twining is a fairly common occurence, but it usually results in a non-viable fetus which is spontaneously aborted-miscarried in less scary terms. In the past when an animal was born with such interesting deformities, it was simply left to die, or if on a farm, slaughtered so that it would not be a burden on the farm's tenuous profit margin. The external appearance does not say much about what kinds of internal defects the animal has, but in general they suffer from a host of complications that makes them very short-lived.

But today, people have digital cameras and large checkbooks, so they get vets to do what they can for badly deformed pet animals and post pictures of them. In the case of the kitten, I can't say that it is a kindness to do so.

As for the frogs, as in those found in increasing numbers in Minnesota, it looks like a subtle change in the chemistry of the local water is messing up the frogs' reproductive machinery.

Cody Dawg · Jun 22, 2005, 02:17 PM

And now whatever is in the water is affecting humans too as evidenced by this three-legged baby:

Eriamjh · Jun 22, 2005, 02:49 PM

Chernobyl has been blamed for ots of mutations. I'm sure that the general increase in bizarre chemicals used in just about everything is not good for us in general.

Eriamjh · Jun 22, 2005, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

Fake, but I'm sure you knew that.

starman · Jun 22, 2005, 03:00 PM

Does Channel 6 have a thing for freaks?

Cody Dawg · Jun 22, 2005, 04:00 PM

That was funny, starman.

JoshuaZ · Jun 23, 2005, 12:57 AM

I'll bet that puppy runs super fast!

My uncle had a 6 toed cat. That was funny.

OwlBoy · Jun 23, 2005, 07:37 AM

Cody Dawg · Jun 23, 2005, 08:39 AM

The six-toed cats in Key West are called Hemingway cats. That's because Hemingway had a six-toed cat and it reproduced endlessly and that gene was dominant. Now there are a LOT of six-toed cats all over Key West.

Cody Dawg · Jun 23, 2005, 08:59 AM

My husband just saw ManofSteal's cat picture and said, "Holy crap! Look at that CAT! That guy has gotta be pushing 250 and that cat must be pushing 100! How can he even hold that cat?"

I finally had to tell him that the cat's nickname is Photoshop, but not before I had a great laugh.

budster101 · Jun 23, 2005, 09:09 AM

You mean that cat isn't real? Whoa. Looks real.

MaxPower · Jun 23, 2005, 09:32 AM

I think this is conclusive evidence that multiple cores are gaining momentum. Everybody is getting on the bandwagon.

OwlBoy · Jun 23, 2005, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by MaxPower

I think this is conclusive evidence that multiple cores are gaining momentum. Everybody is getting on the bandwagon.

-Owl

ghporter · Jun 23, 2005, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

And now whatever is in the water is affecting humans too as evidenced by this three-legged baby:

Cody, lots of human babies are born with extra fingers (sometimes in odd places) and occasionally one is born with an extra limb. It's not something that has just popped up.

The difference with the Detroit baby is that somebody cashed in on her. I find it revolting. This is a natural though rare event, and to pander to the "Enquirer" mentality, somebody got pictures of the baby and sold them. Worse, it was probably a parent doing it.

KeriVit · Jun 23, 2005, 08:38 PM

My friend's kitten has 28 toes... she claims he's inbred.

JoshuaZ · Jun 23, 2005, 08:39 PM

Frogs are fun.