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Oskar the Blind Kitten Is a YouTube Star: Adorable or Overhyped?
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2011/11/29 22:00:00
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Move over, Rebecca Black. The latest YouTube star is a lot cuter than you are. Oskar the blind kitten has more than 1.8 million views and his own Facebook page. Here's how it all came to be. Mick Szydlowski and his wife, Bethany, discovered Oskar by accident, when they were trying to buy an autoharp.
Oskar, the last of the litter, was born without fully-formed eyeballs -- and he literally landed in their arms, the "Today" show reports. Oskar's owner was considering taking him to an animal shelter, so the Szydlowskis decided to adopt him.
"My wife was holding him, kind of like a baby, and rocking him back and forth. He was completely relaxed; his little arms were just flopping by his side, and honestly, he looked like he was smiling," Mick told TODAY.com. Within five days, the Szydlowskis' other cat, Klaus, had accepted and begun caring for Oskar. And Oskar quickly made himself at home.
"What really blew us away is that from day one, his other senses really took over, which you can see in the video of him with his toys," Mick said. "Within a matter of a week or so, he knew the layout of our entire house. We could pour his food on one side of the house when he was sound asleep at the other end, and he could wake up, jump off the bed, and perfectly navigate his way to the bowl." Do you think Oskar is a cutie -- or overhyped YouTube fodder?
Oskar, the last of the litter, was born without fully-formed eyeballs -- and he literally landed in their arms, the "Today" show reports. Oskar's owner was considering taking him to an animal shelter, so the Szydlowskis decided to adopt him.
"My wife was holding him, kind of like a baby, and rocking him back and forth. He was completely relaxed; his little arms were just flopping by his side, and honestly, he looked like he was smiling," Mick told TODAY.com. Within five days, the Szydlowskis' other cat, Klaus, had accepted and begun caring for Oskar. And Oskar quickly made himself at home.
"What really blew us away is that from day one, his other senses really took over, which you can see in the video of him with his toys," Mick said. "Within a matter of a week or so, he knew the layout of our entire house. We could pour his food on one side of the house when he was sound asleep at the other end, and he could wake up, jump off the bed, and perfectly navigate his way to the bowl." Do you think Oskar is a cutie -- or overhyped YouTube fodder?
Top Opinion
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DeborahLakeHelen 2011/11/30 02:29:34Adorable
+20He's exceptionally adorable. I would have adopted him too.I was at my Vet's office several years ago with one of my dogs when I noticed an adorable kitten who had been born with only 3 legs, I took "Jonah" home with me that same day. He also had some other congenital defects and he only lived to be 7. I loved him fiercely his entire life and screamed and cried like a baby when he died in my arms.
Jonah
i dont care if its overhyped and how dare you compare this amazing/adorable video to rebecca black?!!?!?!?!
I had a cat named Jaya. She was not born blind, but she was struck blind after being hit by a car. Quite frankly, it was a miracle she made it with only lost of sight and smell (and therefore taste; she liked eating grapefruit after that).
It really is quite amazing... She didn't stop climbing to the highest points of every shelf and jumping off...
She really used all nine of her lives... She died of old age, and I miss her dearly...
Here's Simba, our blind cat. He was able to run up and down the stairs, down the hall and climb up bookshelfs and on top of the refrigerator. He played with his toys as well.
He'd be on the porch and "look" out at the yard, side by side with his brother. When a bird flew across the hard from a distance, both heads would immediately fixate on it. At that time, we would allow both of them outside, but we would put harnesses on them so they wouldn't be able to run out of our yard, Simba for his safety and Mitty because he sometimes would run off for days at a time. One day as I was supervising them, Simba leaped up in the air and caught a bird in his mouth (I dislodged it, and let it go).
...it would appear that blind cats have a kind of sonar, their ears can rotate around in order to fixate on an object and a three-dimensional image can be created for the cat to track or navigate.