How much is that doggy in the window?

Regular readers know I have a thing for the two-headed animals, but this is an, um, interesting variation on the theme.

In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.

Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy's head dribbled out the unconnected stump of its esophageal tube. The Soviet Union proudly boasted that the dog was proof of their nation's medical preeminence.

Video at the link? Of course there is. Whether it established the Soviet Union's medical preeminence is questionable, but there's no denying it was a pretty heady advance over Experiment #5.