Nine Lives, One Eye!
Here's your dose of weekend weirdness.
Check out this story about a kitten born with one eye. They named it 'Cyclops' - how adorable! Other eye doctors have sent it to me to ask if I felt it was legitimate. Click here for an enlarged photo of this phenomenal feline. (Someone stop me, I can't help myself!)
It's probably not truly one eye, but two eyes that failed to divide...something called synophthalmos. I can't speak for cats, but this kind of anomaly is incompatible with life in humans because other structures besides the eye (like the brain) are also maldeveloped. It would require a CAT scan to know for sure!
Enjoy this blog while you can before WebMD's editors use it to line the kitty litter box!
Check out this story about a kitten born with one eye. They named it 'Cyclops' - how adorable! Other eye doctors have sent it to me to ask if I felt it was legitimate. Click here for an enlarged photo of this phenomenal feline. (Someone stop me, I can't help myself!)
It's probably not truly one eye, but two eyes that failed to divide...something called synophthalmos. I can't speak for cats, but this kind of anomaly is incompatible with life in humans because other structures besides the eye (like the brain) are also maldeveloped. It would require a CAT scan to know for sure!
Enjoy this blog while you can before WebMD's editors use it to line the kitty litter box!
3 Comments:
Is the kitten living? I hope someone cares for it and will give it a good home. Please don't experiment on this baby.
I believe the kitten died later that day or the next day - according to the original story, which I found while surfing.
Interesting posting, I found it while searching images for a project on feline eosinphilic keratitis. I would agree that this is synophthalmia (cyclops). Many of the human developmental defects occur in other mammals. If this is the case I would suspect it to have the other cranial defects often associated with the human condition which I suspect are not compatible with life.
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