Did you know that the beautiful Scottish Fold felines have their distinctive folded ears due to natural dominant mutation in the Fd gene? Or that Manx cats, a breed originating from the Isle of Man, have a small stub instead of a tail due to a naturally occurring mutation?

Well, some of the genetic anomalies can result in very interesting differences in physical appearance. Just think of Instagram’s supawstars like Midas the cat taking the internet by storm with its four ears, or the deceased Grumpy Cat whose ‘grumpy appearance’ was due to underbite and feline dwarfism.

So this post is about the tricks of nature that resulted in unusual and occasionally even wholesome genetic surprises in the animal kingdom. After you’re done with this post, be sure to check out Bored Panda’s previous feature about unique-looking pets!

#1 Feel Free To Boop Or High Five The Snoot

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#2 Cat With 4 Ears

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#3 Rainbow Reticulated Python. Just Another Reminder That There Are So Many Beautiful Things In This World That Are Underappreciated – Including Snakes

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#4 She Has The Most Gorgeous Eyes

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#5 Meet Narnia, A Rare Two Faced Cat

This blue-eyed kitten’s face was precisely divided into two halves: a gray half and a black half, and everyone was surprised when they first saw him.

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#6 A Golden Retriever With A Rare Black Patch On Its Face

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#7 This Is Fanny. She Has A Rare Skin Condition Called Vitiligo, Causing Her Hair To Depigment

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#8 Those Ears

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#9 House Cat Suffering From Myostatin-Related Muscle Hypertrophy – A Rare Condition That Causes Muscles To Grow Excessively Large

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#10 Rowdy Met A New Friend Today. This Is Marcus And He Has Such A Great Attitude About His Vitiligo. He Thinks It’s Pretty Cool

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#11 This Stunning Cat With Striking Two Coloured Eyes Due To A Rare Genetic Condition

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#12 Supernumerary Teeth

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#13 This Cat Must Have A Secret Identity

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#14 Zeus The German Shepherd Dog With Dwarfism

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#15 My Girl Has Vitiligo. She Was Solid Black When We Got Her, And Every Year She Gets A Few More Spots

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#16 Frankie, One-Eyed Kitty With Four Ears Finds A Foster Home

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#17 My Cat Pickles. He Was Born Without An Ear

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#18 Holy Toebeans Big Foot

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#19 A Calf With Three Eyes Has Been Born In Wales. The Vet Who Took The Picture Said She Had Never Seen Anything Like It Before

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#20 Bernese Mountain Dog With Vitiligo

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#21 Did Anyone Say Dalmatian Pied? Hands-Down One Of The Most Unique Pieds I’ve Ever Seen

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#22 I Was Told My New Rescue Pup Has The Rarest Of Ears

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#23 My Cat Has A Genetic Mutation That Makes Her Eyes Weird, Her Sight Is Perfect

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#24 My Newborn Kitten Was Born 3 Eyed

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#25 I Am A Little Tiger… Vitiligo

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#26 Poor Esmeralda Has A Deformed Head. She Has Four Ears, And Teeth Growing From One Of Them. Possibly Limited Hearing

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#27 Found This Bunny With Unique Markings- Wanted You To Know That You’re Unique. You’re Loved. Just Like This Bun

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#28 My Curled Ear Girl

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#29 These Boys Have A Rare Genetic Condition And Just Got To The Us From Pr And Clearly They’re Happy To Be Here

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#30 This Is A Ghoulish Creature. I Recently Learned That She Is A Lykoi Cat. It’s A Rare Natural Mutation. She’s Extremely Vocal And Affectionate

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#31 People Always Tell Me My Cat Has The Most Beautiful Eyes

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#32 A Chick Born With Polymelia, A Birth Defect That Causes The Growth Of Additional Legs Hanging From Its Hindquarters

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#33 My Cat Has One Little Curly Whisker

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#34 Frankie Was The Only One In A Litter Of Sixteen That Was Born With A Limb Difference

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#35 Dexter And His Abnormally Long Tail

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#36 This Cat That Lives At The Parking Lot At My Job Has Extra Toes

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#37 Eggleston Has Some Extra Toes

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#38 Spade, The Albino Doberman

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#39 This Rottweiler With Vitiligo Is Gorgeous

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#40 I Saw An Adult German Shepherd That’s Diagnosed With Dwarfism Today And It’s The Cutest Thing I Saw All Year

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#41 Meet Pixel, My Beautiful Kitten With Heterochromia

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#42 I’m Atlas And I Only Exercise To Chase Bees

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#43 A Cat With Two Functional Noses That Came To The Clinic I Work At

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#44 Ranger Is A Fully Grown German Shepherd With Dwarfism

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#45 Local Pet Rescue/Shelter Had Someone Drop Off A Male Kitten That Was Born With 2 Faces

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#46 Elli Was Born With Tuxedo Markings And Turned Almost Completely White In Three Years Due To Vitiligo

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#47 I Foster With My Local Shelter And Received A Litter With One Kitten Who Has Dwarfism. She’s Half The Size Of Her Littermates. Highly Criminal. Just Dastardly

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#48 Meet Polly, Short For Polydactyl. She Has 10 Toes On One Foot. Talk About A Rare Hypo Redfoot Tortoise, Then Add On A Deformity Like Polydactyl And She Becomes Even More Rare

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#49 This Is Jinx – He Was Born With One Ear

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#50 Meet Avgust, The Extraterrestrial Albino Dog From Moscow, Russia

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#51 Astrex Bunnies. A Rare Rex Fur Mutation, Have Curly Coats. Little Sheep Bunnies

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#52 When The Homeowners Show Up Unannounced

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#53 My New Kitten Has An Extra Paw

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#54 I Would Show Off Too, If I Had Paws As Cute As This

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#55 Cosmo And His Many Toes

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#56 This Cat Has Shrek’s Ears

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#57 New Housemate Has More Thumbs Than I Was Expecting

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#58 This Is Dino. He Has Dwarfism. He’s A Very Small Boy

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#59 This Open-Mouthed Cat With Heterochromia

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#60 Please Do Not Support Unethical Doberman Breeders Who Purposely Create Dogs Affected With Albinism. Too Many Health Issues Plague These Sensitive Canines As They Age

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#61 A Python With Piebald Mutation

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#62 Geordi Loves Showing Off Those Pink Toe Beans

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#63 Reaching For Da Stars… And Food

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#64 Lomg Bendy Shnoot

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#65 Aussie Corgi Mix, With Spectacular Aussie Fur And Blue Eyes

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#66 My Dog Is Not Cute At All

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#67 Murder Mittens

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#68 Helix Was Born With A Spinal Deformity. He Couldn’t Use His Back Legs, But He Got Wheels

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#69 I Saw A Cow With An Extra Limb On Its Hump

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#70 One Very Special Cat We’ll Never Forget Is Sir Harrington Hotwings. His Front Legs Didn’t Quite Grow Right

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#71 I Love The Smell Of Fresh Air In The Morning. Lykoi Cat

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#72 Blep. It’s A Rarity He Is Blessed With

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#73 Bonnie The English Cream Dachshund Puppy Has A Somatic Mutation (Black Spot) That We Think Makes Her Heckin Rare

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#74 Little Snowy Mittens

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#75 My Rooster Has A Mutated Gene Called The Creeper Gene That Makes His Legs Extra Short

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#76 A Cow With An Extra Leg Growing Out Of Its Back

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#77 My Foster Kitten, Myrtle, Has 8 Beans On One Foot

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#78 My Mutant Cat Displaying Some Of His 26 Toes Is My Gift To You

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#79 My Extra Toed Little Guy

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#80 Big Meaty Paws

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#81 You’ve Probably Heard Of Down Syndrome In Cats, Especially For Some Cases Of Genetic Malformations In Felines That Have Become Very Popular

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#82 I Met A Black Cat With Vitiligo

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#83 Our Little Rescue Kitten With Dwarfism. She’s Half The Size Of A Normal Cat

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#84 Cat With Trisomy 19 (Human Down Syndrome-Like)

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#85 My Albino Siamese Kitty (No, He Is Not Blind). His Eyes Are Extremely Pale Blue To The Point Where You Can See His Red Veins

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#86 I Had A Cat With Down Syndrome As A Kid, Named Garfield

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#87 Recently Adopted 7-Year-Old Australian Shepherd With Vitiligo

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#88 Face De Langue. Rottweiler With Vitiligo

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#89 Definitely One Of My Favorite Animals In My Collection

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#90 Cricket Has One Eye, A Cleft Lip And A Crooked Jaw

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#91 “Though She Be But Little She Is Fierce”

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#92 Our Puppy Has Different Coloured Eyes

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#93 My Dog’s Back Kinda Looks Like The Air Jordan Jumpman Logo

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#94 Big Eyed Supermodel

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#95 Cashew Being Cashew

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#96 Because Of A Rare Mutation My Budgie Is Both Green And Blue

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#97 Tank’s Paw Mutation Looks Like A Second Paw Grew Next To His Original One

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#98 My Cat Has Two Nails Coming From One Nailbed

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#99 Heterochromia Iridis Is When An Animal Has Different DNA/Colors For Each Eye. It Can Happen In Humans And Dogs Equally

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#100 My Cat’s Paw Is Pink Where Her Hairs Are White

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#101 Our Cat Has 4 Teeth (He’s Fine, We’ve Been To The Vet)

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#102 My Cat’s Eyes Glow Different Colors Under Flash Since She Has Heterochromia

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#103 My Cousin’s Dog Has Heterochromia

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#104 My Kitten With Double Canines

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#105 This Is Polly. Polly Is Polydactyl

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#106 Visited My Friend’s Dairy Farm Today, He Has A Calf Called “Lucky Number 7”

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#107 Someone Is Proud Of Their 14 Toes

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#108 Meet Ciri, A Polydactyl With 7 Toes. I Caught Her In My Barn, Probably Dumped. She’s Very Sweet, So We Decided To Give This Little Weirdo A Home

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#109 These Two Dogs Share The Same Genetic Eye Trait

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#110 My Curled Ear Menace

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#111 Our New Kitten Minkle. She Survived Being Thrown From A Car And Panleukopenia. Now Living Her Best Life With Us. The Markings On Her Face Are From Vitiligo

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#112 This Is Muffin. She Was Born Without Ears. She’s So Cute And Silly And I Love Her. Does Anybody Else Have A Hamster Without Ears?

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#113 My Cat’s One Toe Bean Has Two Nails

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#114 One Half Of My Dog’s Whiskers Are White And The Other Half Are Black

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#115 Miss Mayhem Is A Special Needs Kitten

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#116 So Elegant

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#117 Mom Thought I’d Like A Car Ride Better If I Was Not In My Carrier. I Did Not

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#118 My Little Girl With Heterochromia Iridium. She Is Also Deaf In One Ear, A Common Genetic Mutation In White Cats With Blue Eyes

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#119 White Zebra Finch

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#120 Male And Female Eclectus With Blue Mutation

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#121 My Sweet Chimera Feral In Thailand. All Her Siblings Got Eaten By Pythons. She’s A Survivor And A Pet Now. Her Name Is Wyatt

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#122 My Cat’s Paw Beans Are Multicolored Depending On The Fur

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#123 My Cat’s Heterochromia

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#124 Able, Black 7 Months Old, Now Has A New Sister Perseverance (Percy), Siamese 3 Months Old

Able was born with a birth defect leaving her with no joints in her back legs causing her to walk like a crab and Percy was born with deformed back legs so she walks on her two front legs. They are becoming best of friends.

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