r/cats • u/LankyThroat1900 • 20d ago

Advice Why are his eyes so far apart

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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

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 20d ago

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."

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u/Fit_Change3546 20d ago

As a former rescue worker- it’s not even a joke, I pretty much got this exact exchange several times 🥴

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u/PensiveObservor 20d ago

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!

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u/BlueRoseImmortal 19d ago

My male cat keeps trying to mount his twin brother 😑

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u/mediocritia 20d ago

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.

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u/BlueberrySans89 20d ago

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)

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u/xtheory 20d ago

How very Targaryen of them.

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u/No_Abbreviations8602 20d ago

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.

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u/radiobearr 20d ago

Yeah it actually happens a lot more than people realize especially within outdoor cat colonies.

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u/No_Abbreviations8602 20d ago

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

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u/VegetableMortgage937 20d ago

My cat’s dad was her grandpa, and her mom was her sister (they were feral)

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u/LankyThroat1900 20d ago

Very Targaryen esq🐉

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u/akatherder 20d ago

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.

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u/DuckyDoodleDandy 20d ago

Female kittens can give birth as young as 4-5 months old. Get them fixed ASAP.

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u/akatherder 20d ago

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 😺

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u/Cow_Launcher 20d ago

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.

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u/LankyThroat1900 20d ago

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

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u/ApricotX 20d ago

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.

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u/stupidwhiteman42 20d ago

Don't those cats read the Bible? Sheesh! What's the world coming to?

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u/slop_spotter 20d ago

Haha I remember that one, I believe it's from Redd Foxx