r/cats • u/LankyThroat1900 • 22d 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/Yoinkitron5000 22d ago

If they had kids together their eyes would be a normal distance apart.

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u/Some_Sympathy_3528 22d ago

Or shifted to either side

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u/Fuzzy-Advisor-2183 21d ago

or both on one side, like a flounder.

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u/Twidollyn_Bowie 21d ago

TIL, and now I’m mad at Disney for telling us falsehoods about flounder eyes.

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u/odis78 21d ago

A flounders eyes start out on both sides of the face but as they grow one of their eyes moves to the other side

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u/Twidollyn_Bowie 20d ago

Wow. That’s even stranger. Off to Google I go.