In a story on the one-eyed kitten:

AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax. Stathis had Allen ship him the memory card that was in her camera. On the card were a number of pictures -- including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed kitten. The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.

Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually impossible, Stathis said.

First off, if someone were skilled enough to sculpt a one-eyed kitten and punch hair into it, it would be trivial to simply take photos of it from different angles.

Secondly, anyone seeing the current incarnation of King Kong cannot help but realize that it's possible to generate exceptionally realistic computer models, fur and all — and once accomplished, it would be extremely simple to render such a model into a real-world scene in the same image format and resolution as a camera's images (including the characteristics of the specific camera's CCD and lens distortion), add the appropriate EXIF data to the image, and simply overwrite existing files on the memory stick.

"Virtually impossible" my ass. "Hey, it's a JPEG, and the file names have the right sequence numbers in them. It must be real!" (Mind you, I have no opinion regarding whether or not the cyclops kitten is real; I'm just scoffing at the "extensive steps" Tom Stathis took to authenticate the images.)