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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 09:47 AM
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Woman Keeps One-Eyed Kitten's Body In Freezer
PORTLAND, Ore. -- 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.

Traci Allen says the kitten she named Cy, short for Cyclops, was born the night of Dec. 28 with the single eye and no nose.

"You don't expect to see something like that," the 35-year-old Allen said by telephone from her home in Redmond in central Oregon.


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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 09:49 AM
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1. That's so weird, dude....
Wow. Poor kitten :(
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 10:44 AM
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2. She's keeping it in case researchers want to study it.
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tenshi816 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 12:35 PM
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3. I dreamed about that kitten the night
after I first saw the photograph of it, except in my dream it was fully grown and sitting next to my computer monitor watching me work, purring and with that big eye blinking occasionally. Pretty freaky dream.
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