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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Jul 2010 at 14:04:42 (UTC)

The most common cases of complete heterochromia in house cats are one odd eye, the blue eye, with one normal eye.
Reason
High technical standard. Also, high encyclopedic value.
Articles in which this image appears
Heterochromia, Odd-eyed cat
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator
Keith Kissel
  • Support as nominator --Gut Monk (talk) 14:04, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Love the picture (my cat has both blue eyes and is stone deaf), but I don't like the caption, it shouldn't say "rumored to be" since that is mostly WP:OR. — raeky (talk | edits) 14:55, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Didn't think I'd ever be supporting a cat-image. But this one is absolutely marvelous. Love the composition, overall colors of the scene which accentuate and support the eyes. Light is very good, depth of field is well chosen. Good resolution. Nice candidate. --Dschwen 16:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Dschwen... Never thought there's be an article on odd-eyed cats - you learn something new every day! Gazhiley (talk) 17:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Amazing! Very interesting subject and a fantastic picture to match. Strong support. -- Jack?! 03:17, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I wasn't wild about the setting (on a bed? Blankets?) but I do feel this is a suitable picture for the subject matter. The quality is very high. J Milburn (talk) 10:05, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • The background may only be a bed with blankets, but that's the usual location of a house cat. I see no problem with the background, it's not distracting or anything. -- Jack?! 21:39, 17 July 2010 (UTC) (I've moved this down as I assume it was meant as a response to J Milburn as didn't make sense in it's original placing below your above comment Gazhiley (talk) 00:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah, hence the full support. However, after some further consideration, I'm gonna make it a weak support. A shot like this is very reproducible, and, though this is good, it's not mind-blowing. I don't rate the foreground fabric. J Milburn (talk) 00:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Nice and rare, very good -- George Chernilevsky talk 15:22, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I might be a shag on a rock here, and the photo as such is OK, but I'm not liking the homely background for an encyclopaedia. Also technicals aren't particularly great - quite heavy noise and a fair bit of artifacting, not so much on the face, but everywhere else. Only in a gallery in the key article Heterochromia, and I can't help but wonder whether the Odd-eyed cat article should be merged into that one (and seems I'm not the only one). --jjron (talk) 17:25, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment First, a public apology to anyone I offened. I sleep walk, and its becoming problem. If I offend you, then I'm sorry. It's because I've spent too much time on Wikipedia and I"m dreaming about it. However, if you need your car door opened, or your slices of bread torn into tiny pieces, then please let me know—I'm an expert on the matter.
Jjron, I disagree. The creator has, I presume, put blue and green blankets behind the cat for a reason. You call it a homely a background, but I'm with Dschwen on this subject—it is part of the composition.
Speaking to topic of FP, I'm wholly opposed. Did you know that heterochromia could happen? If so, how old were you? I have complete heterochromia, and my classmates were amazed by it.
Speaking to the topic of merging articles, I'm on the fence. Yeah...but...I suggest this article. Gut Monk (talk) 21:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We can agree to disagree perhaps. I'm certainly not opposing an FP on this topic, if you think I'm suggesting that, just that I don't think this is it. In reply to your question, yes I did know heterochromia existed, and have seen it in real life, including on neighbourhood cats. I don't believe it's that rare, and the number of images in Commons:Category:Odd-eyed cats would seem to testify to that. How old was I? Well I can't remember sorry, I'm an old man... --jjron (talk) 06:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:June_odd-eyed-cat.jpgMaedin\talk 22:52, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]