White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
People ask why white cats with blue eyes are deaf.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. And in addition to Rios Sweetie. Cats with just one deaf ear may. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes.
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. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. About half of all white cats are deaf and those numbers increase in cats with blue eyes with deafness often found on the same side as the blue eye left blue eye deaf in left ear.
Non-dominant white gene will not mask other colors and give full white coat on cats. 7 of white cats with yellow eyes were deaf. The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats.
White cats with one blue eye and one yellow eye are often deaf on the ear on the side of the blue eye left eye blue. Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s Bamber 1933 and. Two blue eyes completely deaf.
Deafness in blue-eyed white cats. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. Are white cats with blue eyes blind or deaf.
However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well.