White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. First of all it can be said that not all white cats are deaf but they are more likely to be deaf since they carry the so-called gene W White of white in English especially those that have one eye of each color or blue eyes. If a white cat has 2 blue eyes it is 3-5 times more likely to be deaf than a cat with 2 non-blue eyes and a cat with 1 blue eye is about twice as likely to be deaf as a cat. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes.

White Cats and BlindnessDeafness. Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye.

However it is possible for epistatic white cats with one blue eye to also be deaf on that side too as this particular gene can cause degeneration of the inner ear. Interestingly if a white cat with one blue eye is deaf in only one ear that ear will invariably be on the same side of the head as the blue eye. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population. When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness unilateral and bilateral combined of 85 and 649 in cats with two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes.

--White felines who have odd eyes usually have one blue eye and one green or yellow eye--A lot of white kitties have both eyes of the same color. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf.

White color of the coat occurs in. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. Hope this is the fact.