Aug 20 2008Cat Born With Four Ears, Named Yoda
Some cat in Downers Grove, Illinois (just west of Uppers Orchard) was born with four ear flaps. So what do you name a cat with four ears? That's easy -- Barfly. But then you let your son pick another one and he chooses the name of that creepy green goblin from Star Wars.
Ted and Valerie Rock first spied the little guy in 2006 at neighborhood bar on the South Side of Chicago before a Bears game. He was the last of a litter of eight put up for adoption by the bar's owner.
But the Rocks, who had lost their cat of 20 years just 6 months prior, saw something special in the gray kitten and decided to take him home.Their "Star Wars"-loving son thought to name the cat after the tiny Jedi master.
"I had named him Barfly," Rock said. "But we kind of liked Yoda better, and Barfly lasted only about a day."
Apparently the abnormality can cause hearing problems, but Yoda has checked out fine and lives a perfectly normal four-eared life. Well, if that isn't the most heart-warming story of the day. I swear, my heart almost feels like it's on fire. And, hello -- my left arm just went numb. Oh fu
UPDATE: Whew, false alarm. Sorry to scare you folks, but the ticker's just fine. It was the Double Diablo Burrito I had for breakfast. And my arm? Ha, I had forgotten I was prepping it for a Stranger.
Yoda the Cat Astounds With Four Ears [foxnews]
Thanks to Bryan, Sam and Kathryn, who were all born with four of something else. Limbs!
Reader Comments
1. OctoGooch - August 20, 2008 1:06 PM
That cat is such a Loser!!! Right guys?
2. chaosthirteen - August 20, 2008 1:10 PM
SHHHHHHHHH.... it can probably hear you.
3. qwerty - August 20, 2008 1:34 PM
KITTEH
4. qwerty - August 20, 2008 1:34 PM
KITTEH
5. john - August 20, 2008 1:43 PM
first
6. Cheatachu22 - August 20, 2008 1:49 PM
Oh god. We all know the impending LOLcat horror that shall come. Those things are the bubonic plague of the internet...
7. Rod - August 20, 2008 3:20 PM
I find that child's lack knowledge concerning Yoda's physical appearance disturbing.
8. Icon - August 20, 2008 3:30 PM
I want to eat it.
9. Skeptikal - August 20, 2008 9:32 PM
Lame, looks photoshopped.
10. Succubus Divine - August 20, 2008 9:45 PM
I'm sorry but here's no way it's possible.
Does it eat cat food? Well, I guess not because it heard that cat food is full of crap.
11. Buddy "Tough" Love - August 21, 2008 1:07 AM
Geekologie Writer, you slay me. Keep on keepin' on. I couldn't stop laughing at your 'heart attack' and then the follow-up.
Commentors: Get a life... until something is proven fake, quit your bullshit.
And a special fuck-you to:
Succubus Divine! Oh, YOU say it's not possible, so it must not be! WIN!
12. Beatnik - August 21, 2008 2:50 AM
ACK! That thing creeps the hell outta me, real or not!
13. Cheatachu22 - August 21, 2008 4:08 PM
Actually, cats with four ears aren't unheard of. They don't actually have another pair of ears, just ear flaps. They can't hear out of them, see out of them, or shoot lasers out of them. Sadly. http://www.messybeast.com/freak-ears.htm
That's a site devoted to cat information, with a huge section on medical curiosities. Yoda is actually in that article.