OMFG... it lived for a day!!!

Gandalf23

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

Scraggs

awwwww poor thing

LovelyHurling

wow no nose, cool. i wonder what killed it

Gordon

Aww, I thought baby Ewoks lived on.. err.. Pluto?

RuggieBear

Gordon wrote:

Aww, I thought baby Ewoks lived on.. err.. Pluto?

i believe they lived on Endor

Gandalf23

LovelyHurling wrote:

wow no nose, cool. i wonder what killed it

Your kidding, right?

LovelyHurling

Well cats can breath through their mouths... so yeah, im just wondering what actually killed it

funky penguin

RuggieBear wrote:

i believe they lived on Endor

or was it the forest moon of endor?

kittenkiller

Oh my god!
That poor little thing!
I wish i hadn't seen that before i head to bed.
That's so sad.

Someone please tell me that it's a fake?
Please?

LovelyHurling

kittenkiller wrote:

Oh my god!
That poor little thing!
I wish i hadn't seen that before i head to bed.
That's so sad.

Someone please tell me that it's a fake?
Please?

NO POINT GETTIN ALL SORRY NOW YA KITTENKILLER

Fajitas!

It looks so tranquil.

It was probably severly deformed inside. Poor little thing.

seamus

LovelyHurling wrote:

Well cats can breath through their mouths... so yeah, im just wondering what actually killed it

Nature aborted it.

Actually, if you look at the head, it's smaller than a kitten's head should be - the eye is normal size, it just looks cyclops-ish and huge because the head is irregularly size. I would hazard at a guess that the poor thing was mising sizeable chunks of brain and other vital organs. Should never have lived at all.

LovelyHurling

seamus wrote:

Should never have lived at all.

Ah well gave us sumfing to talk about hey

Steoob

whoa.. freaky...the only actually one eyed thing ive ever seen...

Gordon

seamus, that's so racist of you.

LovelyHurling

Steoob wrote:

whoa.. freaky...the only actually one eyed thing ive ever seen...

Surely you south down in the shower

LegacyUser

apearing in a jar of vinegar on an ebay near you!

Gordon

stp wrote:

apearing in a jar of vinegar on an ebay near you!

lol, that wouldn't surprise me actually!

Canis Lupus

That looks a wee bit photo shopped to me or has the internet just made me a cynic when it comes to photos.

LegacyUser

Canis Lupus wrote:

That looks a wee bit photo shopped to me or has the internet just made me a cynic when it comes to photos.

michael jackson

Kablamo!

i feel really really sad now....
ah god i'm close to tears.
poor litte kitty (rip)

tovalee

photoshooped. cats eyes are closed for a couple weeks after they're born, even big weird cyclops eyes

Standard Toaster

Wow!

RuggieBear

Is that an animated signature i see there edge....?

LovelyHurling

Some kittens are born with their eyes open, and even if not, it's easy to surgically open the eyes, makes sense cos this cat would have been very interesting to examine, however these eyes aren't quite blue but maybe that's just the view we get

ctrl-alt-delete

tovalee wrote:

photoshooped. cats eyes are closed for a couple weeks after they're born, even big weird cyclops eyes

im glad somebody is awake, and how ironic it be the person with a one eyed avatar

Font22

that poor thing. thats really upsetting if its true. if it is photoshopped its v well done. the eye looks a little wierd though

Sarsfield

tovalee wrote:

photoshooped. cats eyes are closed for a couple weeks after they're born, even big weird cyclops eyes

The thing was grossly deformed. It probably didn't even have an eyelid to close.

Some Science Bod wrote:

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.

I thought this was a windup when I read the protein name but Google suggests otherwise

tovalee

i still dont buy it, it's just a little too symetrical and the eye is too big .but who knows? weird stuff happens every day. it also has sort of a square pupil. looks almost liek a goat or a horses eye to me

billy the squid

anything could have caused its death
http://images.google.ie/images?q=god%20kills%20a%20kitten&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi

JimmySmith

Its definitely photoshopped.
Wuite badly i thought too. Dont see how anyone could be fooled

Sarsfield

It seems to be from AP photo. I'm sure they'd know a badly photoshopped photo when they saw one?

YeatsCounty

WARNING: Do not visit the following website if you are squeamish about animal (feline, in this case) deformities........or if you want to remember kittens as cute furry balls of fur.


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

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.

Another example of a 'cyclops kitten' can be found here.


So while the AP photo might be Photoshopped, I don't believe that it is for the simple reason that this condition actually exists, as outlined above.

Sarsfield wrote:

It seems to be from AP photo. I'm sure they'd know a badly photoshopped photo when they saw one?

Agreed.

The Bollox

funky penguin wrote:

or was it the forest moon of endor?

buu-zing!

MorningStar

Then you people haven't heard of twisty kitties or cabbits. People inbreeding cats to create new breeds. A twisty litty often has a deformed spine and a cabbit (some think a cat bred with a rabbit) is deforemed with short front legs.

Karl Hungus

Here's one that survived!

Hobart

Linky no work for me.The image “http://www.worth1000.com/entries/20500/20581_w.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Karl Hungus

Hmm, ****.

YeatsCounty

Hobart wrote:

Linky no work for me.The image “http://www.worth1000.com/entries/20500/20581_w.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

It won't work if you click on the link, but it will if you copy the address and paste it into the address bar.

Well, it did for me. It looks like an owl, haha. Photoshop is fun.

Suaimhneach

Worked for me when I copied and pasted it too.

Jaysus some of the deformaties are really really horrid. Inbreeding or just random chemicals gone mad eh...

Scary stuff.

YeatsCounty

Jesjes wrote:

Jaysus some of the deformaties are really really horrid. Inbreeding or just random chemicals gone mad eh...

Scary stuff.

Just mutations, which natural selection takes care of. It has to happen, I suppose.

The kittens with

two faces on one head

are the worst for me.
(Spoilerised because I'm thinking of all of the animal lovers out there who don't want bad mental images)

TerrorFirmer

Canis Lupus wrote:

That looks a wee bit photo shopped to me or has the internet just made me a cynic when it comes to photos.

Yeah, same, it looks really fake....

joejoem

Gandalf23 wrote:

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

You would have to call it Lila and dye its head purple

jor el

Canis Lupus wrote:

That looks a wee bit photo shopped to me or has the internet just made me a cynic when it comes to photos.

I was thinking the same. Don't kittens normally open their eyes only after a week or so from when they are born? This one has it's eye open fully and is less than a day old. The internet is so full of spoof crap that it's easier just to disbelieve/disregard everything.

Oops, my bad. Didn't notice the second page there, seems this has already been discussed. Anyway, I remain skeptic.

Nala

We had a cat once, she was only 6 months old which is barely old enough for a cat to be sexually mature. We didn't even know she was pregnant, til I found her one day in the shed with a foetus laying beside her. It was like jelly- no proper paws or anything, no fur. God only knows how far developed it was. It was awful, the poor cat had no idea what was going on.

Nala

jor el wrote:

I was thinking the same. Don't kittens normally open their eyes only after a week or so from when they are born? This one has it's eye open fully and is less than a day old. The internet is so full of spoof crap that it's easier just to disbelieve/disregard everything.

Oops, my bad. Didn't notice the second page there, seems this has already been discussed. Anyway, I remain skeptic.

It takes 10-14 days for a kitten's eyes to open. The kitten in that picture was a newborn.

December Son

No nose eh?
How does he smell?
Terrible!!
*ba dum tish*

Ill get me coat.

Dave!

YeatsCounty wrote:

WARNING: Do not visit the following website if you are squeamish about animal (feline, in this case) deformities........or if you want to remember kittens as cute furry balls of fur.


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

NOTE TO EVERYONE: DO NOT VISIT THAT SITE -- FOR KICKS OR OTHERWISE!!!

:eek:

Rancid.

Keyzer

Steoob wrote:

whoa.. freaky...the only actually one eyed thing ive ever seen...

Never encountered a one-eyed trouser snake before?

Binomate

stp wrote:

michael jackson

What about Michael Jackson?


That thing looks fookin' hillarious!

YeatsCounty

DaveMcG wrote:

NOTE TO EVERYONE: DO NOT VISIT THAT SITE -- FOR KICKS OR OTHERWISE!!!

:eek:

Rancid.

I agree.........I discovered it when me and the wife got our cat. He's polydactyl, he has two extra digits on each of his front paws. He's awesome.

We found the information we needed and then we discovered the dark side of that site......