A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little skepticism when it turned up on various Web sites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition.

“Holoprosencephaly” causes facial deformities, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute's Web site.

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I would like to see a photo of this so called one-eyed kitten thing

http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_060110.html

Story of the one eyed kitten is a fake, a kitten less than 2 days old does not have its eyes(eye) open. they dont open for almost a week after birth. also when they do open they are all have a cloudy blue tint to them, this picture shows clear brown, its a total fake! ive been a vet tech for 3 years and assisted kitten births for 21 years. dont beleve everything on the internet.

that kitten is soooooo bizzar man the one eye makes it look so cool!!!!!!! man i wanna kitten like that man it would freak people outttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Lizz

In response to Ari's comment: I'm a medical student, not a vet, but the condition is definitely seen in humans; look up 'cyclopia' in any medical dictionary. It is a very rare congenital defect... so just because you personally haven't seen it before, don't assume it's impossible.

I am no vet, so take this as an uneducated opinion but if you ask me when a kitten is born with one eye and no nose, something like the fact that its eye is open at birth is not hard to imagine, especially if the eyelids were not properly developed, or the eye was over sized.

Information says the kitten died within 2 days so it seems likely there was more wrong with the kitten than just that.

having assisted delivering several kittens and puppies I agree- they are born with eyes undeveloped and closed for 2 weeks after birth.

I've raised all kinds of kittens. But surprisingly, when I saw the picture it took me a while to recal the fact that kittens don't open their eyes for a week--maybe more. But I don't know how long before a kitten opens its ONE eye...since I've never had that happen to any of my pets. This is after all, “holoprosencephaly”. I don't know anything about it. Maybe it makes the kitten's eyes fucked up. I don't know.

That being said, I want to hold the kitten in my own hand (ewwwwwwwww) before I lose my skepticism. A kitten's eyes are, not only poorly developed as newborns, but also BLUE. All kitten's eyes are blue at birth, they change color as they age. On the other hand, one eyed kittens may be born with brown eye. It just doesn't look right.

yeah i also believe it is a fake, ive seen kittens eyes at birth they are blue-ish, this kittens eye is to perfect, its so clear, so open, and they eye is exactly in the centre of the head, iam not saying its impossible, but iam saying you would have more changes of passing through solid matter by infinatly running at it then see a deformity like that so perfect

It's not a hoax. Use the internet for more than porn and you'd know this.

I raised manx cats for 10 years I saw kittens without an anus and kittens without their back portion of their spine and even the back legs formed backwards . When you have mutations you never know what you will get .

Hi all!
Mother Nature can have do some mistakes... Here another one
that look real and ... with blue eye...



one eye cat

Bye

How true on both accounts. Maybe this kitten was a fake, or something about
having one eye removed the blueness, and also gave it discomforting feeling
that prodded the kitten to remain awake so early in life.

The Internet is full of weird stories, such as that "hogzilla", a hog as big as
a huge bull. Except I saw a television show do a follow-up in which they dug
up the remain and do a DNA analysis which showed that it was a hybrid between
a run-away pig that was bred to grow really big, with a hog that doesn't. There
was a ranch nearby that was making feed with growth hormone that this hogzilla
was raiding at nights. The person who shot it also exaggerated the actual size
when he boasted about the size. So it really existed.

Some time ago, there was also the story of a person who seems to "exude" thin
metal foil from the skin and a kitten whose fur was green from copper metabolism
imbalance. There was also the Russian family whose bodies attract ferro-metals.
Such as placing a metal food serving plate on the torso and a spoon on the
plate, and they both stuck. Maybe they were some "tricks", or there are just
many things that science hasn't discovered, like that coelacanth fish?

If you go to a hospital, you also find that humans also have many strange
things. Not just "mermaids", but teeth that grow like an elephant, inside the
skull to cause headaches and others whom I knew.

So, what is all this talk about Intelligent Design? Looks pretty much to me that even a "great being" can screw up like any other joe on an assembly line.

Everyone keeps saying kittens are born with their eyes closed. That may be true of a normal kitten, but like one post said, this is no normal kitten. There's so many things that could be wrong with this kitten. The eye didn't develop correctly, no eyelids, the eye probably doesn't even work. Poor thing died within 2 days too. This is just an example of what man is doing to earth and the environment.

I wasn't shocked by the picture of Cy, and I'm sure other folks who remember a picture brought to science class at Richland Middle School back in the mid 1970's weren't either. I just wished there had been an internet back then.
Smokie our (outdoor) family feline had a little "Cy" of her own. Our little Cy looked a lot like the white Cy but our little Cy was gray & black and our Cy's eyelids actually combined and formed a single fleshy horn above the single eye, he had no nose, just a large pink surface with no nostrils, his ears were very low on his head. Our Cy also only lived a day, we buried the little fellow in the back yard. Yes, we did take pictures and I took the pictures to school to show my Science Teacher. That picture was all the talk for some time at school. I'll dig around in the shoe box and see if I can find the picture of our 70's Kitty Cyclops.

Hello all, Well I don't know about the kitten but I just got back from the vets office and one of my Chihuahua's pups out of a litter of 3 , was born with just one eye. I noticed it looked odd at 2 weeks and one of the pups already had eyes open.( eyes open anywhere from 10-17 days) So vet opened the other normal one's eyes and I showed her my concern and she said that they can be born with just one eye . My lil runt has just the one but she is still special to me and I already have a great home for her.Vet says its rare but it does happen and says she will never know the difference. They are 15 days old today . One weighed 1 lb and another weighed 3/4 lb but the special one eyed runt weighed 1/2 lb. Just FYI
Debbie

Hey, the most disturbing thing about Cy is, I can only find 10K images
.....need at least 100K for decent wallpaper

Perfect example of "macroevolution",
but this mutation will probably not help the kittens survival, will it?

Maybe it shall,
because instead of nature selecting this attribute,
humans may breed the cat and try to preserve the mutation.

Yeah. But do you think it's an abuse to nature?? I mean, the cat already died. And scientists would still have to use it for research?? Isn't it too awful??

It could be true....I Once had a cat who had two kittens, and one was born perfectly normal and the other was quite small and didn't have a NOSE! At first it breathed with its mouth open, but then couldn't eat. Needless to say it died a couple hours after birth.