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Puppy with ‘second tail’ growing from his head found abandoned in street

A rescue puppy who has a second “tail” growing out of his head has been described as “magical” and “absolutely perfect”.

Narwhal, who is just ten weeks old, was found wandering the streets of Missouri, United States.

His rescuers at Mac’s Mission, which specialises in helping dogs with special needs, named him after narwhales which have tusks.

Rochelle Steffen, founder of the Missouri-based Mac’s Mission rescue centre, said: “He’s literally the most magical thing you’ve ever seen, and so happy.

Narwhal has a second "tail" on his head (Picture: PA)
Narwhal has second "tail" on his head (Picture: PA)

“Everybody wants to see him. I’ve had so many volunteers have come over and said ‘hey, can we play with Narwhal?’ And it’s now become the thing to take selfies with him because he’s just so cute.”

Narwhal visited the vet on Tuesday where X-rays showed there were no bones in the “tail”, which does not wag, and he was given a clean bill of health.

Narwhal was giving a clean bill of health after getting checked out by a vet (Picture: PA)
Narwhal was giving a clean bill of health after getting checked out by a vet (Picture: PA)

Ms Steffen said her rescue centre specialises in helping “janky” animals that would not “get a chance anywhere else”.

She said they have had a dog with five legs, a three-legged dachshund, blind and deaf animals, as well as dogs with cleft palates and mange – but she has never previously seen anything like Narwhal.

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Ms Steffen added: “Everybody has said that it looks like a tail that just didn’t develop fully, like he might have tried to absorb a twin and it just didn’t work all the way.

“It kind of curls right down under his eyes. We deal with such unique animals here that we love to let them keep their uniqueness.”

While her preference would be to leave the second tail untouched, she said they will remove it if it starts to grow inwards or to get in his eye.

And they will not adopt him out until they are satisfied it will not develop into an issue further down the line.

Ms Steffen said: “Everyone sees him and they literally want to rip him out of my arms immediately.

“It’s been really good for our itty-bitty rescue to have such a rock star in our midst because all this attention is helping so many of our other dogs.

“He loves it, he’s like, ‘who’s going to hold me next?’

“He’s just this little anomaly that’s absolutely perfect.”