Inside Nicolas Cage’s wild animal menagerie—including a two-headed snake

burned 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. No ordinary bird, this high-flyer possesses a shock of white feathers up front and actually talks.

Though Cage was initially drawn to the Edgar Allan Poe connotations of the crow, he now seems to get a kick out of the fact that Hoogin calls him names. As he told the LA Times, “When I leave the room, he’ll go ‘bye’ and then go, ‘Ass.’”Back in the mid 1980s, while living in a Hollywood apartment, Cage had a pet octopus that he kept in an aquarium. According to Los Angeles Times, the creature was hiding behind a rock and Cage wanted to pry it loose for the benefit of a