Two-Colored Faced Rare Yet Beautiful Chimera kitten

The Nashville Cat Rescue has recently rescued a black-and-orange chimera kitten named Apricot. Kayli Craig, who goes by Kiki, says Apricot and Pretzel (couldn’t think of a better name for them) were rescued by a family who moved into a house and found them in a wall. They waited for momma to return and find out she wasn’t there. They realized they needed foster care right away. Luckily I had nursing moms to offer them foster care,” Craig said.

“Chimers are identical cats whose DNA is created from two embryos that fuse,” National Geographic says. As Craig says in an Instagram post, “chimera cats result from two embryos merging to form one cat.”

She’s known for her unique look and the distinctive split down the middle of her face, half black and half orange. Besides having two different colored eyes, chimera cats can also have heterochromia, which is a pattern of interlacing the eye cells. However, Apricot is too young to tell right now whether she will have this too. When she’s seven weeks old, her eyes will settle into adult coloring.

According to Craig, both kittens are doing well. However, Pretzel seems to be a little crazier than his sister. He loves to play with his siblings and is still a little shaky when he runs, but he tries to join in the fun,” she says.

Apricot, however, more closely resembles a baby kitten. It is still very early, so she doesn’t have a personality yet. She is still sleeping a lot, learning how to walk, and using the litter box. She is consuming slurry (a mixture of wet and formula food),” Craig notes.

If you are reading this to adopt Apricot possibly, she is currently not available.