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- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5First response: poor little thing. I love cats.
Second response: is this a hoax? I mean kittens don't open their eyes for like 4 or 6 weeks if my memory serves me correctly. - peorth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Poor thing :(
- rc_collins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you live on a farm, or visit a farm once in awhile you see crap like this all the time. There are all sorts of birth defects all the time, this really is nothing special. Especially cats, they usually just have like 10 toes per paw, but sometimes you get extra tails, heads and legs too.
--dan - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People who call it fake are obviously dumbasses. Cyclopia is a rare, but possible disorder in cats caused by toxins in the blood at conception. The reason their eye is open is because of the abnormal size of the eye, and the lack of skin to cover it.
Learn before you speak, or else you look like a moron. - SupaDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You people dont think that maybe if it was born with one eye it may have been born without proper eyelids, thus leaving the eye open?
God some people can be so stupid. If it's stamped AP you better believe it... the AP has a solid rep, they dont *****. - unclejesse0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It peers deep into my SOUL.
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If it's on Yahoo it MUST be true... Pfft!
Tomorrow on Digg: Cyclops kitten is fake. - srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1CYCLOPIA
Cyclopia or synophthalmia (known medically as holoprosencephaly (HPE)) is a gross lethal deformity of the skull. The eyes are fused into a single enlarged eye that is placed below the nose (the nose may or may not form, if it forms it resembles a proboscis). Much of the face may be missing, such that the eye and proboscis (if present) are placed near the crown of the skull. Cyclopia results from a failure of the embryo's forebrain to divide into 2 hemispheres. It can result from defective genes or from certain toxins. These seem to interrupt development by interfering with a protein called Sonic hedgehog (Shh). Severe cases of cyclopia result in stillbirth or in death within a few hours of birth. - danielhoerr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a shame that all you haters are so encaved in your dark bedrooms and bright computer screens that you've lost all ability to reason.
First, do a search on feline deformalities.
Second, check the reputation of the Associated Press, the worlds most formidable news resource.
Third, keep your negativity and conspiracy theories in your AOL chat rooms. - Trianth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.messybeast.com/freak-face.htm
Lots of information on feline deformities. Check about 3/4 of the way down, it does mention cyclopia and has more pictures...i don't know why, but the pics on the site take a long time to load...so you have to be patient. Oh, the pictures of cyclopia on the site are a lot worse than this one, btw. - Wildthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1isn't it important for predators to have two eyes so that they can have depth perception, which is necessary to judge distances to prey? Like that's why predators have eyes in the front of their heads and prey often have eyes on the side so they can see more around them (rabbits for example)
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How the Hell did Fark.com miss this one? Their whole schtick is kittens and ugly-ass baby animals.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[quote]I will post the reply if and when it comes...
IT'S THE FRIGGIN ASSOCIATED PRESS, PEOPLE! NOT YAHOO, NOT FARK, NOT ROTTEN.[/quote]
What, the Associated Press can't be fooled? Take the Iraq war for instance... - sovietninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its not fake this has happened before. The eye is so large that it is open.
CYCLOPIA
Cyclopia or synophthalmia (known medically as holoprosencephaly (HPE)) is a gross lethal deformity of the skull. The eyes are fused into a single enlarged eye that is placed below the nose (the nose may or may not form, if it forms it resembles a proboscis). Much of the face may be missing, such that the eye and proboscis (if present) are placed near the crown of the skull. Cyclopia results from a failure of the embryo's forebrain to divide into 2 hemispheres. It can result from defective genes or from certain toxins. These seem to interrupt development by interfering with a protein called Sonic hedgehog (Shh). Severe cases of cyclopia result in stillbirth or in death within a few hours of birth. - chodak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It would be cool to have a cyclops pet. It's not like they actually have to hunt for their food! Too bad the condition results from the brain not properly splitting into two hemispheres. Kinda limits the life expectancy. +digg
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's freaky and sad at the same time. :(
- lwdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1besides--aren't ragdolls blue-eyed?
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1with a genetic anomaly like this i would find it completely possible that it had its eye open after only one day. normal kittens, with normal eyes may not open their eyes until 3 to 5 weeks. but this is a genetic mutation and the eyelids could have been malformed. so for all of you who are screaming "FAKE" take a step back and look at the situation.
more and more i start to realize that digg is filled with ignorant adolescents who don't have the mental capacity to understand things like this. - settsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hard to believe in these days of Photoshop, but not improbable: http://www.messybeast.com/freak-face.htm
- danielhoerr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Daniel Hoerr Mon, Jan 9, 2006 at 5:36 PM
To: apimages_us@ap.org
Hello,
I was hoping someone could clear something up related to an AP photo published on Yahoo News. Here's the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/480/nyet27501091906
As a loyal follower of the AP daily photos, Yahoo News & Digg.com, I posted this link on Digg.com which caused a flurry of nay-sayers regarding the validity of the photo of Cy the one-eyed cat. Would you please confirm the photo had no editing or "Photoshopping" to create the odd look of the deformation of this cat?
Thank you for your time,
Daniel Hoerr
I will post the reply if and when it comes...
IT'S THE FRIGGIN ASSOCIATED PRESS, PEOPLE! NOT YAHOO, NOT FARK, NOT ROTTEN. - Teh_Psyren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For those of you who are saying cats don't open their eyes for three weeks - the cat in question does not have a normal eye - it's not loss of an eye but a severe disfiguration. Why would it function like a normal eye?
- kornandchaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't help but laugh at the people who say "oh this isn't anatomical" or "that eye is too big" or "they don't open their eyes after one day" .. since when does a NORMAL cat look like that? Anything is possible when it comes to defects. Just shut your arses and stop ***** saying ***** when your just a nerd sitting behind the ***** computer posting your opinionated opinions. Yes, you can say I'm hypocrytical, but I'm not someone who looks at a picture and has NO background whatsoever to judge whether a picture is true or false.
I don't have a claim whether this is FAKE or REAL since I'm not some proffessional person who looks into these things seriously, but whether or not it's fake or real .. it's cute. I think it was real. Even if it can't open it eye after one day, if it was a cyclop cat, who says it can't considering being a cyclop is "IMPOSSIBLE" too?
Real or fake? We shall see .. - compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Second response: is this a hoax? I mean kittens don't open their eyes for like 4 or 6 weeks if my memory serves me correctly."
Kittens also have a nose and live longer than a day. This kitten is defnitely not a normal kitten. - floam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The image is not from Yahoo, stop calling it photoshopped. It's from the AP. The chance of the former releasing a fake image is low, and the latter is even less.
- arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sad, to live just to die.
- GhostFreeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Equally freaky as hell and depressing :(
- usergentoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats just plain sad
- LunchB0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the eye is too big to be covered with skin, the damn thing doesn't have a FRONTAL LOBE or a NOSE, lets assume the eye could be open at birth... jesus....
- zerolaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i really really dont see how the logic that a normal kitten with 2 eyes wouldnt open its eyes for X weeks. this isnt a normal kitten with 2 eyes.
other then that no one has posted a single valid point. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gah! My friend sent this page to me and I went to post it here. I was happy when the URL check found no dupes, but then the second check found it. And of course it's the same URL. Anyway +Digg for freakiness.
- stenspect, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0poor guy. Remember that movie "rock the cradle" with hot ass Rebecca (dont know how to spell her last name) Ramorjne. The child has a set of cats that are all deformed - thats my random thought of the day.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jesusphreak - yea, ragdolls are pretty popular ... and expensive
- hadak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*blinks...with both eyes.*
- maverick3x6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0man.. you guys need to chill out and stop fighting... for the kitten's sake!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This proves that god is NOT perfect! He messed up pretty bad on that kitten =(
- artrulz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0:0(
Or should I say...
.( - Dan™, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You've gotta feel bad for any kitten that only lives one day, even if it's horribly deformed (and totally badass looking).
- mattb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it looks like those one retarded cards people buy...
even if it was real, i don't think it would be possible - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, and I call shennanigans on AP's credibility after their racist portrayal of black New Orleans residents as 'looters' in PICTURES on YAHOO.
Werd. - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's sad, poor thing! Though I can't say that if the cat survived its first day and well past, that it would survive much longer at least on its own to any degree! With monocular vision you can't develop depth perception as we do! Yes after a very long period of time their brain will adjust to some degree, using shades/shadows on objects to determine depth, whereas two eyed creatures do the same and use the distance the object is relative to each eye based on its angel, giving a much more accurate depiction of depth! This cat would literally and likely in its first couple years kill itself because it hasn't developed any sort of depth perception, and what little it can won't become useful and adjusted for some time, and thus would likely get hit by a car, fall off of something, and cause severe injury or death unfortunately! Very sad ;(
- sock2828, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0woa Redmond Oregon i live only a few miles away from there in Bend oregon
- rc55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ugh! Anyone know how I can unsee that?
- zenghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow...it reminds me of those soundwave monsters from half-life
- blindog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shennanigans!!!!
- stimpack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Those sick ***** animal breeders need to be dealt with. Ragdolls are a sick idea anyway and deformaties are common, ***** humans messing with things they shouldnt be.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it is fake. How come news.google.com doesn't have it?
- Mjhavok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Poor wee dude.
- ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.pathguy.com/bryanlee/cyclops.htm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Product of inbreeding...should be a lesson to all...DO NOT SCREW YOUR RELATIVES!
- Crimsonsoul343, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that is nasty better off dead than alive
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