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http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060109/480/nyet27501091906
I'm not going to post the photo, but here's the summary
*shudder*Quote:
Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy.
Is that a real photo? Feels like a photoshop job.
Yes. I am sure that the Associated Press is in the business of doctoring photos. :thumbsdow http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULTQuote:
Originally Posted by gasbag15
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Originally Posted by Associated Press
oh...my...god...that's just unbelievable. I'm not going to sleep tonight.
too bad it died. that one would have been worth cloning.
It's a cool band name...
"Cyclops Kitten"
That's a horrible band name...just horrible :pQuote:
Originally Posted by admedia
i didn't think kittens that young could open their eye(s)...?
What?!
From hanratty's article
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Meanwhile, Cy the one-eyed cat may be dead, but it has not left the building.
Allen said she's keeping the cat's corpse in her freezer for now, in case scientists would like it for research.
She said one thing's for certain: "I'm not going to put it on eBay."
I's sell it for 43 small, unmarked, animal crakcers. ( USSF)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/cyclopes.aspQuote:
Originally Posted by nordberg
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Cyclopia (or synophthalmia) is a birth defect in which a normally two-eyed animal is born with only a single fused eye, generally disproportionately large and centered on the face above the area where the nose would usually appear. Typically in cyclopic births the nose is either absent or present as an appendage located above the single eye. (Eyelids are also generally absent in such births, which explains why the eye of the one-day-old kitten pictured above is open even though cats are usually born with their eyes shut and remain in that condition for the first week or two of their lives.)
well, there you have it! :)
The CL is an excellent resource for getting to the bottom of animal birth defects.
Ah !!! Thats a scary photograph.
Ag shame man.
poor little thing.
I'm surprised the thing lived very long at all. It must have had yet another birth defect that allowed it to breathe through it's mouth or it would have suffocated. Cats breathe through their noses (not their mouths).
... I'll buy it on EBay.. but lemme check my account... oops. I got too little cash, is 4 hundred thousand pound enough?
p.s. if it is then i probably keep the money
after seeing that, my turkey sandwhich tasted better.. hmm cyclops kitty with taste enhancing vsion?!
Oy, what a sad follow up article to poor Cy.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat...-the-cat_x.htm
that's too badQuote:
A one-eyed, noseless kitten that stirred debate last year over whether it was a hoax will be the centerpiece of a new museum intended to promote the theory of creationism.
haha, up yours darwin!
Ok the links above didn't work so I found it somwhere else, and I spit out my granola...WTF.
the strange thing is it doesn't really look like a kitten, more like a little monkey.
It looks just like a sockpuppet I once had.
Would it really have it's eye open at that early age? And what about the colour, kittens eyes are blue....
I don't believe it.
it had no eyelid.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Xell
don't know about the colour bit though.
It looks like a monkey, scary though ...