Posted on 01/10/2006 11:08:17 PM PST by beaversmom
Had a medical condition....I'd a' never guessed.
Many thanks Mr. Obvious Headline Writer!
In an FR thread yesterday about the little kitty, some posters were skeptical and thought the photo was photoshopped.
Self-ping for later.
Disney on ice. :D
Yes, I read that thread too. Someone posted a link to a simliar picture of a cyclops cat so I knew this one was true. I think it was at messybeast.com
All the kittens I have had experience with were born with their eyes closed and they didn't open for a couple of weeks. Color me skeptical.
My God. And I thought I was sick!
I prefer to think of it as a "medical condition."
Sorry it's shopped. Anyone who has taken and anatomy class or has done anatomy drawing knows this is a hoax.
A bad one at that.
Those aren't even canine teath.
Most are born dead; but humane people will try to make comfortable the unfortunate for as long as possible. We had a blind lamb a couple of years ago that reached adulthood because (my recently departed) Dad called for it, and led it around with his voice so it would be able to find the feed bunks. He followed Dad around like a puppy.
Canine teath=Feline teath
"Don't worry, those people are seeing things."
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.
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