Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher reports that a veterinarian examined the frozen corpse of Cy, the one-eyed kitten last month and determined it was not a hoax. A photo of the infant feline, which died of birth defects the day after it was born, was greeted with skepticism when first published by the Associated Press.
An AP photographer was duly dispatched on a fact-checking mission to Redmond, Oregon, where he took additional pictures and delivered the corpse to local veterinarian Karen Laidley for authentication. She confirmed in a signed letter that the body had not been tampered with and was "in its natural newborn state." Full story.
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i have worked at a vet for years and seen this condition..the picture is a fake tho. first kittens do not open thier eyes in 2 days, second the eye in the picture is not even a cat’s eye i.e. with a distinctive cats iris..it looks like someone has put a horses eyeball in a socket. third when the condition presents it is not HUGE ( the eye is way out of proportion) it is usually in the correct place or a lttle over and there is a dent or an actual eye socket where the other eye should be.
so yes this is a real condition..but this pix is fake.
if a REAL vet had looked at this he would have instucted her NOT to keep it in her freezer as freezing breaks down cells. he would have put in in a jar of formaldahyde to preserve it.
deformed annimals present daily in a vet. especially when the litter is large. the runt usually gets all the bad genes..or problems.
your picture is a fake
I think Cy is beautiful. And for those who are throwing out the “Kittens aren’t born with their eyes open” card obviously haven’t read up on Cy. Cy was born without an eyelid.
Debi, you are correct in that kittens eyes normally are sealed the first few days after birth, but what is “normal” about Cy? My son raised gerbils for a while until one was born with its’ large eyes wide open and the mother gerbil ate it, which is normal for a gerbil born defective. I promptly demanded that the gerbils go. I still remember the screams of the baby gerbil as the mother “disposed” of it. Also, the distinctive cat iris does not show when a kitten is very young.
I have a kitten about 30 minutes old. It has its eyes open….
my cat had a litter of kittens 2 days ago and yes she had a deformed kitten this baby as born with one eye and no nose or mouth it simply could,t survive
I had a Siamese kitten born yesterday that had 2 big red eyes open just like the Cyclops kitten. It had a membrane over them. It also had its intestines outside of his body. It was really shocking and almost like out of a horror movie.. In the end though it is a birth defect.. abnormatlity..etc.. It was alive.for almost a day. Its very sad to see .. my stomach is still churning. She did have two other kittens that seem normal so far.. One is quite big and healthy looking but the other is about half the size..so I am keeping my fingers crossed with that one.. I don’t know what happened with this litter but I definetley will not be breeding her again.
Cy is beautiful. I would love to have had him. I wish he had lived ,poor little guy, but he is in heaven now. I was reading about this kitten online and some website said pic of ugliest cat and showed poor Cy I was so upset I cried. He is beautiful everyone of God’s creations is beautiful. How dare they mock poor Cy. I hope they will pay for their ignorance and stupidity!!!
yes..the comments and statements that the story has been verified and is true do stand in their place..but then….there is a major point in what Debi Lovell says….come on..can the mother cat have been crossbred with a horse or dog or smthng like that?i ws thinking thats a full grown cat eye..but after reading debi’s comment..now that i see it, it doesn’t look like a cat eye at all…i dnt know wat to make of this story…seriously..
its real , he wa sborn with out an eyelid.Cy was not the first ever cyclops kitten . do research b4 you cry fake.
I do believe this is true. I work at a Humane Society and I had one just born the other day. It was stillborn though. Yes the eye was wide open and I have pictures to prove it!!!! Weird, YES!!! TRUE DEFINATELY!!!!!
I was at this clinic when this all happened and I can verify that yes this was a real kitten born with no eye lid so the eye was open. It was born to one of our clients. The clinic or the doctor was not paid anything to verify this kitten and she looked at it and checked it over for about a half an hour or more.