Kitten With Two Tails Is Latest Freak

Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1948, Page 4

Kitten With Two Tails Is Latest Freak

.When an animal which was neither bull nor cow made its appearance before startled bidders at the weekly stock sale recently, Levin resident's were impressed. Tney were even more so .when, on Saturday, the existence of a four-legged chicken was revealed. Latest nomination for the local Freak Stakes, howeVer, is even more .bewildering — it is a two tailed kitten and for the benefit of the gentleman who was last seen heading in the general direction of the nearest eyfe'vspe- - cialist round about "sixish" on a recent night, it was seen in Oxford Street. The kitten has adopted a storekeeper in Oxford Street, who has been feeding it for the past three months. He says that it has no,. . ^ other obvious peculiarity except, >1 " perhaps, an outsize in appetites. Appearing to be a stray, itt is most suspicious of even the friendliest of approaches and has so far eluded eapture.

A Wellington vetermar^'surgeon who was anxious td- "AiHfepHfc't it at close range visited the '.shop recently, but the kitten, * after a few.preliminary circqfts of the store at top speed,, leapt on to some shelves and the l.ast' 'seen of it was the tips of its tWo tails disappearing rapidly towards the nearest exit.