Inside Nicolas Cage’s wild animal menagerie—including a two-headed snake
nypost.comburned through some $150 million — blown on eccentric splurges such as a 67-million-year-old dinosaur head, a couple of islands and the first “Superman” comic — but his exotic pets are a constant.
He’s cared for snakes, crows, cats, turtles, fish and at least one octopus. As revealed in the April issue of GQ, maintaining his menagerie comes with challenges and pleasures.
While fussing over his Maine coon cat, Merlin, he told the magazine, “He’s so kind and so loving. Sometimes he puts his arm around me when he’s sleeping and I think it’s my wife … ”Cage once owned a two-headed snake, purchased for $80,000 after he dreamed about a two-headed eagle.
But it was double trouble feeding the reptile so he donated it to the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. “Both heads were fully functional and capable of swallowing,” Robert Mendyk, curator of herpetology at the zoo, told The Post. “We had to take turns feeding each head and place a rubber spatula between the heads to prevent one head from fighting over the other head’s food.”Here is an accounting of Cage’s mostly uncaged flock, past and present.Cage’s crow lives inside a geodesic dome in the actor’s Las Vegas house.
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