Born with only one eye, 'Cleyed the
Cyclops' stunned his owners when he was born - and inspired them to
share his amazing story on the Internet. The
Bengal kitten was delivered in a veterinarian's operating room last
week after his mother began to experience difficulties giving birth. The
second of the liter, Cleyed 'floored' everyone in the room as they
realised that he had been born with a rare deformity that left him with
one eye and no nose and tragically the tiny kitten died very soon after
coming into the world.
Posting the clip onto YouTube, hundreds of thousands so far have watched the poignant clip of the little kitten and its one eye.
'Wow!"" He floored me, I was in shock as
I have only seen a picture of a Cyclops kitten like this once ever and
that was on the internet,' said the kitten's owner.
'He was born alive and survived only a short time. This was a horribly sad experience, but very intruiging to us all.' Thankful
to have been with the kitten if only for a time, the owners, who use
the handle absoluteangles 1 on YouTube were happy to have met their
kitten, but wouldn't want to repeat the situation again.
'All of us in the operating room experienced a very rare once in a lifetime (hopefully) kitten birth,' said the cats owner. Confirming in follow up posts on
YouTube that the kitten did not suffer, the owners said that trying to
keep him alive would have been inhumane. 'Cleyed was an amazingly beautiful little angel and did not suffer,' said absolouteangels 1.
'It was the best thing to do in not trying to keep him alive and in the video Cleyed had already passed.
'My babies who pass over the Rainbow Bridge need to pass in peace.'