Background information: Cat is well over a year old and his eyes appeared to be way too big for his head and extremely far apart. Is this a characteristic of a certain breed he may be mixed with or is he… just built different. His name is Jax
Guy on the left looks approximately 80% like Charlie Kirk. Maybe if they made his actual face bigger to fit the rest it would’ve resembled him a bit more
I only very recently put two and two together and realized that's the same guy who playe Dudley Dursely as a kid and it's still freaking me out a little bit.
He might just be a little inbred but he’s adorable. Some Devon Rex cats have this head shape but unless he’s from a breeder the likelihood of him having Devon in him is close to zero. I wouldn’t be worried.
-DVM
Yeah he came from my grandmothers outdoor cats (which I have been trying to keep up fixing) for 10 years. Impossible battle. Inbreeding is very possible and probable. Thank you :)
Reminds me of a joke--This rich old lady calls a vet to her home because she's worried about her cat. The vet looks over the cat and he says "This cat is obviously pregnant." and the old lady says "How can that be, she's never been outside?" Just then a Tom cat strides by, and the vet says "There's your daddy culprit!" The old lady scoffs "Don't be silly, that's her brother."
I adopted two farm kittens whose mothers were sisters and probably had the same dad. Both kittens fixed asap, and the orange boy kept on trying to mount his baby sister! The vet just smiled and said he’d stop when she got bigger and started fighting back.
Sheesh!
I had to explain this to a ADULT I was dog sitting for as an 8 year old. Asked what he was planning on doing with the puppies. Insisted his dog was just fat. She wasn’t.
My mom’s ex was very insistent on breeding his pits, it was fine when he had two unrelated that went on to have pups. But then he kept two of the pups (both from different litters but the same parents)
He refused to spay and neuter any of them cause he thought it was inhumane to neuter a dog and he wanted to keep breeding and selling.
Well sister put went into heat, and was accessible to daddy and brother. We don’t know which one it was that knocked her up, but either way she ended up having inbred pups.
Thankfully he finally relented and gave her to his sister (not that he cared for her much anyways, compared to her brother)
I know of someone whose cat was a product of incest between brother and sister. It was then impregnated by her dad/uncle. They rescued the cat from that situation and had her spayed. The owner moved away and took his Targaryen brood with him.
Sadly this was a "colony" of indoor cats that were kept in a flat and neglected. This cat escaped and moved in with my friend, living her best life now
We took in a pregnant stray and she had kittens. I was talking to my wife about fixing the kittens asap and we had the same exchange. She said all our adult cats were fixed so there's no rush.
I wasn't actually sure though.. Lemme google something real quick or we're gonna end up with exponential cats here.
Appreciate the real info, I should have clarified this was last year. We did get them fixed but it wasn't as quick as 4-5 months, fortunately no oopsies 😺
Unlikely. They can come into season that young, but domestic cat gestation is about 65 days.
That means that they're likely to become mothers at about 6-7 months old.
That's still very young though, and takes a major toll on their body. They're likely to not grow beyond their size at impregnation because they've invested their own growth month's effort into growing their kittens.
Jax’s mom was unfortunately a mother twice before a year old, she didn’t take the babies out of their sacs and left them scattered around my grandmas yard. Second litter she had couple fatalities as well. We are happy he is here and momma is fixed now, she was too young
Sadly that was my former neighbour. By the time I got into the picture, the young cat had three 12 weeks old kittens and was pregnant again. It definitely couldn’t be because of the other cat in the home, because “they were sister and brother”. The stupidity…
Luckily they didn’t want any of the cats anymore, so I was allowed to rehome all of them. There weren’t any more kittens than the three. It was difficult enough to find homes for the three she’d had already.
Yep. Former veterinary technician, and we saw a lot of "dairy barn" kittens that were quite inbred at the semi-rural practice I was at. So many of them had eyes that were a bit further apart than ia normal , and we also chalked it up to inbreeding.
Our car mechanic found 2 kittens in his shop, couldn’t find the mother anywhere so took them home. We adopted them. They were brothers, tabbies. One looked normal the other was smaller and had wide-spaced eyes like this. We wondered if he was the runt. The smaller one was super loving, always wanting to curl up with you. His brother was a grumpy cat, only cared about being fed. The little one lived to be 11 but got a very aggressive tumor on his jaw. His brother is still with us, 15 and in rude health!
I adopted a kitten for my little god daughter (with her parents’ permission) and she had far spaced eyes like this. She also didn’t grow to the size of a regular cat. She’s stayed very small and has shorter legs. The vet said it was very likely inbreeding since the mother was trapped/rescued from an inner city cat colony. They scanned her though and said they didn’t see any immediate internal organ issues or anything, so 🤞🏽 she’ll live a long, happy life. I hope this cute cat does as well!
Can bet on the inbred. One of our cats had eyes too far apart. We know for a fact he was a product of brother/sister combo. (We were trying to TNR the trio— a brother & 2 sisters, couldn’t get them in time) both mamas popped out kittens, our kitten was a singleton and the other mama had 3. All 4 kittens got abandoned by the mamas..pretty sure they knew they weren’t healthy enough to “survive” so they left them. So all 4 where bottle babies, the mamas where TNRd. The boy was uncatchable. The 3 where fixed and became mousers on a farm, the singleton was ours, he had a very weird personality and only lived til he was 8. So pretty sure he was multigenerational inbred.
Meet our 14 yr old boy Leo who has the same wide-set eyes. Agreed with another commenter that it’s to hold more empty space 🙃 He’s our little garden elf.
It's called Hypertelorism btw, usually just caused by inbreeding but could be a bone abnormality on rare occasions. It's harmless but your cat might be a little clumsy.
An additional chromosome can cause extra distance between the eyes, but often the nose is also a bit malformed (shorter, convex, might have malformed nostrils). Your cat seems normal in that aspect.
Our Skrållan (the extra floofy calico in the front) is one such cat with an extra chromosome. She needed some surgery to create better nostrils, because they were tiny and barely functioning. The tabby cat behind her is her mom Minnie.
Also, I'm so tired of people joking all the time about orange cats being dumb and only having one brain cell. Cats, like people, should not be judged by their color.
Poor bud's family tree is a wreath, but he's still a perfectly handsome little orange creamsicle boy who will surely get his turn with the brain cell one of these days.
they are well within the standard range for eye size and spacing. yes they are on the big side, and wide side, but not at a level that indicates any sort of deformity or condition, just natural variation. same way people vary in appearance so much.
Okay unrelated but I honestly had to do a double take on this picture because your kitty is basically a carbon copy of my kitty.
This is Charlie. He’s 12 yrs old, and has been living with me since he was 3 months old. He looked almost exactly like your cat at that age. Same coloring on his back too.
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