There’s no denying she’s a beautiful animal, but trying to hold this cat’s gaze is a somewhat disconcerting experience.
Meet Venus, the chimera cat that has taken the internet by storm.
Venus’s face is half black and half calico and heterochromia has given her one blue eye and one green.
"This little split face cat looked like a combo of the 2 cats I currently had (and still have)," says Venus's owner on the cat's Facebook page.
Venus, who is known as a chimera cat because of her genetic composition, went viral earlier this month when someone posted a photo to social news site Reddit.
A few days later, the cat was well on her way to becoming a bona fide internet celebrity, with her Facebook page ratcheting up close to 36,000 "likes".
"She's as sweet as can be....gentle, loving, and has this little tiny kitten like "meow" even though she is 3 now. She acts like a big baby in the way that she loves to be babied. She doesn't bother any furniture with her claws and uses a scratching post. She does not have one single bad habit......she's perfect!" says a post on Venus's Facebook page.
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