Posted by axxxr
A kitten was born in the u.s with only one eye and no nose..sadly it only survived one day,but really quite amazing!
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Posted by batesie
eye, that is amazing.
Posted by axxxr
eye eye...
Posted by batesie
on a serious note, its a shame this happens really as it sounds like the owner is a breeder. they want to breed new and wonderful types of cat, but this causes errors in nature to occur due to the inbreeding...
Posted by methylated_spirit
Could be fake, thought cats eyes didn't open unti lthey were 2 or 3 weeks old?
@Batesie: Yeah, its the same with corn snakes, i've seen a few disasters due to inbreeding, etc, people trying to get colours they like.
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Posted by axxxr
I don't think that is a fake meths...i have done some digging around and have found quite a bit of information on cats with birth defects...lots of pictures and info on this link
here's another cyclops kitten ,and the eye is open on this one aswell.
Posted by EastCoastStar
but as @meths said... they dont open their eyes right away. i know they dont. i have bread cats (and dogs) before.
Posted by axxxr
Yes i am aware of that,i have raised cats and kittens aswell...but this isn't a normal kitten,maybe because of the abnormality the kitten is born with the eye open?
Posted by EastCoastStar
that could be true. Since it has only one, maybe it will automatically open the one.
I wish one of the cyclopse cats would live.
Posted by Rocky B.
There's some museum over in Belgium which has a human cyclopse. Apparently it was stillborn, and was pickled and put on display.
Posted by axxxr
According this article the kitten may have had neurological disorder.
“Holoprosencephaly” causes facial deformities, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute’s Web site.
Posted by methylated_spirit
With the eye being much larger, could it be that the eyelids are too small to close around it, and thats why its open?
Posted by batesie
it could well be it wasnt born with any eyelids...
Posted by Johnex
Guys this looks very freaky...
Posted by Vein
Wow, stuff like this is incredible, mutation in our day and age!
Posted by joebmc
Its those dam mobile phone masts
Posted by axxxr
That makes me think,I wonder if there has ever been any human cyclops?
Posted by Sammy_boy
I can't help thinking of Leela out of Futurama at the moment!
I imagine doing anything that required depth of field might be a bit tricky if you only had one eye!
Posted by axxxr
Won't depth of field matter if you eye is in the middle of your forhead?
Posted by Sammy_boy
I would have thought you'd have difficulty with depth of field/3D images with one eye, regardless of where it is?
Posted by axxxr
yeh your proberbly right..eye can see where your coming from now.
Posted by Sammy_boy
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Ugh!
That was terrible!
Posted by axxxr
sorry mate,....had to get that one in!
Cyclops Kitten is featured on Yahoo's Buzz Log as one of the most searched keywords of the moment, and there are even blogs with poetry dedicated to this strange creature.
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