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NO TEARS IN THE END

1/11/2006 - ONE EYED CAT - POOR BABY

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By TERRENCE PETTY, Associated Press Writer Tue Jan 10, 11:58 PM ET

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.

Allen said she stayed up all night with the deformed kitten on her recliner,

feeding Cy a liquid formula through a syringe. She says she cared for the

kitten the next day as well, until it died that evening.

Allen had taken digital pictures that she provided to The Associated

Press. Some bloggers have questioned the authenticity of the photo

distributed on Jan. 6.

AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to

confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax. Stathis had Allen ship him the

memory card that was in her camera. On the card were a number of

pictures - including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed

kitten. The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.

Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture

format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually

impossible, Stathis said.

Meanwhile, Cy the one-eyed cat may be dead, but it has not left the

building.

Allen said she's keeping the cat's corpse in her freezer for now, in case

scientists would like it for research.

She said one thing's for certain: "I'm not going to put it on eBay."

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