one eyed kitten Options

[Jeng]

ok not sure if this goes here or the lounge.but eh o well. its a news article i found that was on comcast home page.

Famous One-Eyed Kitten to Go on Display
By Associated Press
Wed Apr 5, 7:07 PM

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GRANBY, N.Y. - The one-eyed, noseless kitten that inspired an international debate last year over whether it was a hoax is coming to a new museum of oddities in central New York.

The museum founder, who believes in creationism, said the kitten is meant to launch another debate about how science and religion intersect.

The Oregon woman who owned the kitten said she turned down Ripley's Believe it or Not! and sold the remains to John Adolfi of Granby because she liked his religious reasons for wanting them.

"We didn't want Cy becoming a joke or part of a personal collection," Traci Allen said. "But John was so heartfelt, you could tell he was genuine and sincere."

Adolfi would not say how much he paid for the kitten, named Cy, for Cyclops. He said he plans to have it embalmed Wednesday at a local funeral home.

The kitten died in December, a day after being born. Veterinarians in Oregon said it suffered from a rare disorder called holoprosencephaly.

Cy will be displayed in a glass jar in the Lost World Museum, which Adolfi hopes to open in nearby Phoenix this fall.

Other exhibits will include giant plants and eggs, deformed animal remains and archaeological finds, Adolfi said.

really freaky looking and kind of weird.

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I don't feel that badly for it. :/ i know it might come off as being insensitive... but meh. It's just a kitten, and it's probably best that it died so shortly after birth if you really think about it. What a horrible and difficult life it would have to endure if it had lived... I googled the disease and looked up it's symptoms... besides the external deformities, many major deformities have to do with the brain. It probably, quite simply would not be able to function at all.

I'm not religious at all. I'm a total Darwinist at heart, and am all for Survival of the Fittest. It's best that it died and that's that. PLEASE forgive me if i come across as being cruel and harsh.... meh... there's no real "nice" way to express how i feel about it.

For all of you that ARE religious, just take it as "God meant it to be that way" or some other rubbish. Take comfort that you didn't inflict the disease on the thing and be grateful that you didnt have to kill it yourselves. i guess.

As for its being in a glass jar on display, that's probably the best way to keep it preserved.

I must say, though, I do so enjoy a good medical oddity.