Poor Cyclops Kitty :( :(

Poor guy. I imagine that having one eye was the least of his problems.

This is apparently reasonably common in cat births. I found myself wondering if it ever happens to humans...

Well not *common*, but not unheard of.

http://www.messybeast.com/freak-face.htm

(err warning: some pics on that link are hideously awful)

haha that's probably the last link-name you'd have to attach that caveat to

My cat's got one eye and no nose

how does he smell?

etc etc etc...

CYCLOPS KITTY UPDATE: According to the headline currently on Drudge,
"One-Eyed Cat Had Medical Condition"! What an amazing turn of events!

This is really the worst thing ever. I saw that picture on some other thread a few days ago, but I managed to convince myself that it was probably just photoshopped.

Can you provide a link to a picture of a unicorn if you are going to post such pictures? I think they should save that kitty's DNA - tha would be a popular new breed - "Oregon Cyclops"

my kitty has extra toes (which is pretty common). she can pick up her toy ball like a person!

I don't know about worst thing ever.. it's incredibly sad and surreal, no doubt. But it's common for dogs and cats to have stillborns or not-quite-right pups or kittens, respectively... it happens in every other litter, practically. I can think of worse ways for a living thing to die, although I don't want to dwell on it.

We just got an uncommon glimpse of a rather odder form of this case here, that's all. I don't think the kittie was capable of being "happy" or "sad" at this point.. although given that kittens don't open their eyes until days later if not a couple of weeks, I'm starting to doubt whether this story is true or not.. then again, that's a really large eye even for a kitten, so perhaps the eyelids were malformed or nonexistent.

Aesthetically, it's an amazing and sad picture, even if photoshopped.

Congenital deformity = God's Photoshop

More:

Apostropher mentions that some people find this picture of a one-eyed kitty unbelievable. Should I mention one of my little hobbies?

I do some work on holoprosencephaly. That kind of cyclopia is fairly common, and here are a few pictures to back that up.

At the top left is a zebrafish larva with ethanol-induced cyclopia, and a control below it. Top right are some sheep skulls—the top one is a case of natural holoprosencephaly, induced by a teratogen found in plants of the genus Veratrum (Mama Sheep ate some bad weeds during her pregnancy). The bottom picture is a row of rabbit pups that were intentionally exposed to that same teratogen, and all were born with that weird one-eyed look.

I've got a set of procedures that allow me to generate one-eyed fish at will. The agents responsible seem to muck up signal transduction at the midline in early development; my particular interest is in tracking down the patterns of cell death and aberrant cell migrations that produce the final phenotype. So, the one-eyed baby animal is a common sight around here, and the kitten is actually a rather uninteresting example: I like animals where I have access to the whole process of eye and face development in a petri dish, without have to chop into a bloody messy uterus to see it.

Oh, and my one-eyed fish don't make it to adulthood. Changes to the facial midline disrupt primary blood flow rather catastrophically, and they only last a week to ten days, with diminished circulation in the body and an unfortunately inflating heart and pericardium—their hearts actually explode.

!!!

i think i'm going to cry













out of one eye

Aren't farm cats born with plenty of deformities, due to all the inbreedin'?

DEAR NEIGHBORHOODIES: "I've got a set of procedures that allow [sic?] me to generate one-eyed fish at will."

By the way, people who don't think grammar pedantry is nitpicky: is this guy really saying he has multiple procedures that all allow him to generate one-eyed fish? Doesn't he probably actually mean he has one single set of procedures that allows him to generate one-eyed fish? I mean, if there were a critical demand for one-eyed fish, his possible error could be a disaster!

Pardon me, people who DO think grammar pedantry is just nitpicking.

hahas

I have a technique that allows me to generate a one-eyed monster

Yeah, I found that putting in a NWA CD into Monster Rancher had that effect too.