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10 January 2006

I cannot help but post a link to this picture of a one-eyed kitten, and I can only hope that you think it is more cute than gross because my head keeps wavering back and forth between the two but I think it's finally landed on cute so be it.

post by: nobody at: 14:24 | 27 comments

That's terribly sad. And hard to believe, but Snopes says it's true.

posted by amro 10 January | 14:30

It looks like some strange alien monkey more than a cat. Not really gross, but a little unsettling.

posted by me3dia 10 January | 14:30

I read on Fark that that whole Snopes thing was a hoax.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 January | 14:32

Is it bad that I find it neither cute nor gross, but hugely fascinating?

posted by Frisbee Girl 10 January | 14:33

I don't like it.

posted by gaspode 10 January | 14:34

Sorry, but I'm kind of leaning towards gross. Not that I have anything against the poor little kitten. I wish it the best. And now I feel bad for calling it gross.

posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 14:35

Looks suspiciously like Tom Cruise.

posted by Hugh Janus 10 January | 14:35

When deciding between Cute or Gross in this pic, I voted for
"This Will Haunt Me In My Dreams"

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 January | 14:36

Whoa. I'm going back to penguins and pillows.

posted by tr33hggr 10 January | 14:37

I read on HollywoodReporter.com that Tom Cruises' next film is entitled "I am the One-Eyed, Noseless Kitten"

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 January | 14:37

I found it incredibly sad. The poor thing was born without a nose and died after only a day.

posted by ooga_booga 10 January | 14:38

You know what they say: In the land of the dead, blind, stinky kittens, the one-eyed, noseless kitten is king for a day.

/I vote sad

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 January | 14:41

I found it incredibly sad. The poor thing was born without a nose and died after only a day.

Crap, now I am sad too.

posted by tr33hggr 10 January | 14:52

I don't really like it either. I don't like reality intruding on my carefully constructed and bulwarked life like that.

posted by omiewise 10 January | 14:58

It's so sad. I came across this post on another board yesterday, which links to two cyclops kitties - one photo is farther down.

posted by iconomy 10 January | 15:03

Maybe because I saw the MoMA show last month, I was reminded of Odilon Redon's Polyphemus.

See also, Theocritus 11. Translated nicely at Diotima.

My looks are frightening. I know it's true,
One long shaggy eyebrow runs from ear to ear
With one huge eye below. My nose is flat
And wide. Yet, as I am, I keep a thousand head
Of cattle, and from them I fill a vat
Of the best milk to drink. All year round
I never run out of cheese, not even in
The coldest winter. My baskets are always full.
I play the pipe as no other Cyclops can,
And sing, sweet apple, of you and of myself,
Often late at night. For you I raise
Eleven gentle fawns, and four bear-cubs.

posted by eatitlive 10 January | 15:13

come on, give the thing a CPAP machine or something. The sad part is that modern science had this great chance to keep a cyclops cat in the world, and it failed. Damn you, Tom Cruise!

I bet it would have looked really scary* when it puked.

*but in an adorably sad way.

posted by Hellbient 10 January | 15:14

Oh my. I think sad might equal cute for me, but the second photo on the page iconomy linked to doesn't count because it was stillborn and thus (one could argue) never a cuddly kitty even for one day.

So these one-eyed cats, there are more and more of them?

hellbient: I bet it would have looked really scary* when it puked.

I bet it would have looked really cute when it rubbed its one-eyed head against your shin and looked up at you longingly, waiting for food.

posted by nobody 10 January | 15:29

There will be no more talk of one-eyed heads rubbing up against anything on this thread. I have spoken.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 January | 15:32

The ears are very cute.

posted by danostuporstar 10 January | 15:39

we don't find it cute yet because the cutification process has only just begun.

posted by Hellbient 10 January | 15:41

oh my - Hydrocephaly, Cleft Palate, Anomalies of the Eyes and Ears, Two-Headed/Two-faced Kittens.

You've been warned - More sadness, but also cuteness.

posted by Hellbient 10 January | 15:47

Hellbient: too much sadness!

posted by nobody 10 January | 16:50

but also cuteness, nobody.

but. also. cuteness.

posted by Hellbient 10 January | 17:22

Not cuteness, not in my books. Nightmaresque, sure. Freaky, obviously. Downright disturbing, of course. Cute? Not by leagues.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 10 January | 17:38

even the duplicated ear kitties?

posted by Hellbient 10 January | 18:14

*boos*

posted by danostuporstar 11 January | 14:09

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