Dear God, what IS that thing?

[savethewave]

Little Kitty Cyclops...


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/480/nyet27501091906

Proof that purebred pets are genetic disasters.

Comments

[didodiva]

As new and fairly rare as ragdoll cats are, I'm not surprised they're be inbred enough that this could happen. God, why are people such snobs that they'd spend hundres of dollars for a specialty cat when they could buy one for half that at the pound? Or even get a stray free from the paper!

[savethewave]

The ragdoll breed is descended from a male who was bred back with his MOTHER. Yeesh.

All of my cats and my dog are rescued strays.

[aequanoctis]

Most breeds descend from cats that were originally bred with their parents or siblings to develop and fix their 'special' traits. I know that's how Rex Cornish and Sphinx were created.

I wholeheartedly agree about strays. I volonteer in a no-kill cat shelter and we are overloaded (as always *snerks*) with cute strays that people stick their nose up at, but the moment a pure breed cat is dumped, people are fighting to get it cheap.

[savethewave]

I volunteered at a shelter until they were going to put a cat to sleep who had crystals in his urine, and needed a apecial diet. I took him home, and quit the shelter.

Mutts rule.

[o0olellyo0o]

i think this is an elaborate hoax

[savethewave]

The same birth defect is in humans. Look up "cyclopean eye." It usually happens in really inbred families. Think of that X-Files episode where the older brother was also the father to the two other brothers.

[o0olellyo0o]

the reason i think it's a hoax is kittens dont open their eyes for weeks.

[savethewave]

In the case of this particular birth defect, the eye is partially lidless, and therefore "open." In a final irony, the eye is almost always blind, as well.

[pandora48sch]

That kitten is totally dead in the picture.

[mrmikeyman]

Utterly off topic here, but I just had to comment.

I LOVE your M*A*S*H icons!

That is all.

[pandora48sch]

You're welcome to them, as long as you credit :-) I'm about to take them down anyway. I can post them if you want.

[zweihander01]

I also enjoy your M*A*S*H icons, but I am saddened by the lack of icons featuring Charles.

[sharmel]

mew!!!
i saw the picture!!
Poor kitty cyclops!

[anrakushi]

When you flash a camera in a human's face you get red eye. When you flash a camera in an baby animal's face you get blue eye (and yellow eye when they're older). This statement coming from someone who just spent the evening looking through baby photos of a litter of dogs she had to raise-- not a single photo I have of the babies have solid black eye with a white shine.

It's a really wicked post, but I'm afraid I can't buy it for fact without more pictures.

[anrakushi]

Of course, I'm always open for more fact evidence of proof.

[savethewave]

I'll bet that not a single photo you have of a baby with only one eye, either...they only live for a few days at maximum.

No pics, but here's some scholarly evidence:

http://33.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MO/MONSTER.htm

Scroll about halfway down. This cat was a textbook example of this birth defect.

Cyclops, Siren, &c.The same feebleness of the formative energy which gives rise to some at least of the cases of defective closure in the middle line, and to the cases of ambiguous sex, leads also to imperfect separation of symmetrical parts. The most remarkable case of the kind is the cyclops monster. At a poii%t corresponding to the root of the nose there is found a single orbital cavity, sometimes of small size and with no eyeball in it, at other times of the usual size of the orbit and containing an eyeball more or less complete. In still other cases, which indicate the nature of the anomaly, the orbital cavity extends for some distance on each side of the

[anrakushi]

Ahha. Very cool