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How cross-eyed Siamese cats see
Breeders are busy eliminating the hinkey gene
Mattster: My girlfriend has a Siamese cat. It gives me the creeps. The thing is cross-eyed. Really! It just lies under the coffee table and stares at me. At least I think it’s staring at me. Maybe it’s looking out the window, I don’t know. My girlfriend says there’s nothing wrong with the cat and it’s supposed to be that way. Well, how can the thing see if it’s cross-eyed? That’s the part she can’t explain. I’m hoping you can. — R.G., Solana Beach
As you suspected, girfriend’s Siamese came from the bargain bin. An irregular, like one of those $2 off-grain T-shirts that don’t hang right after you wash ’em a couple of times. The Siamese does have the rep as a perfectly acceptable cross-eyed pet, but the crossed eyes are a genetic defect.
Somewhere in the annals of Siamese history, a few neurological hookups between their retinas and the visual centers in their tiny, snooty brains went bad. It caused them to have double vision and some other image-forming problems. To compensate for the blown wiring, their eyeball muscles pull their eyes in toward their noses so they don’t constantly walk into walls. Even as we speak, breeders are busy eliminating the hinkey gene from the Siamese pool. Maybe your honey got the cat before its eyes started their migration. That happens when a kitten’s about three months old. Now she’s gotten attached and feels compelled to defend it against critics. And I’m not responsible for anything your girlfriend might do if you feel compelled to set her straight about her defective pet.
Here's something you might be interested in.
How cross-eyed Siamese cats see
Breeders are busy eliminating the hinkey gene
How cross-eyed Siamese cats see
Breeders are busy eliminating the hinkey gene
Mattster: My girlfriend has a Siamese cat. It gives me the creeps. The thing is cross-eyed. Really! It just lies under the coffee table and stares at me. At least I think it’s staring at me. Maybe it’s looking out the window, I don’t know. My girlfriend says there’s nothing wrong with the cat and it’s supposed to be that way. Well, how can the thing see if it’s cross-eyed? That’s the part she can’t explain. I’m hoping you can. — R.G., Solana Beach
As you suspected, girfriend’s Siamese came from the bargain bin. An irregular, like one of those $2 off-grain T-shirts that don’t hang right after you wash ’em a couple of times. The Siamese does have the rep as a perfectly acceptable cross-eyed pet, but the crossed eyes are a genetic defect.
Somewhere in the annals of Siamese history, a few neurological hookups between their retinas and the visual centers in their tiny, snooty brains went bad. It caused them to have double vision and some other image-forming problems. To compensate for the blown wiring, their eyeball muscles pull their eyes in toward their noses so they don’t constantly walk into walls. Even as we speak, breeders are busy eliminating the hinkey gene from the Siamese pool. Maybe your honey got the cat before its eyes started their migration. That happens when a kitten’s about three months old. Now she’s gotten attached and feels compelled to defend it against critics. And I’m not responsible for anything your girlfriend might do if you feel compelled to set her straight about her defective pet.
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