Are Most White Cat With Blue Eyes Deaf

White cats with blue eyes had a high probability.

Are most white cat with blue eyes deaf. The key determiner in deafness in all-white cats lies more in the color of their eyes than that of their coats. With two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.

Cheers --- terry tery pride APDT-Aus apdt1827 CVA IPDTA TDF. The percentage of deafness in white cats with one blue eye rises to 40. White color of the coat occurs in cats in the following three ways.

Two blue eyes completely 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. The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been determined to date and advanced statistical genetic analy-.

Furthermore if a cat has one blue eye and one green the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. According to the Feline Health Center at Cornell University research has found that only 17 to 22 percent of all-white cats without blue eyes are born deaf. In fact only 85 of white cats are born with blue eyes while the rest of the white cats are born with brown eyes or some other color.

Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. However all white cats or kitten are likely to be deaf and it. However not all white coat cats have blue eyes.

For years people believed that white cats are born with blue eyes and 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. A cat with dominant genes of white fur may have blue or orange eyes while the albino cat may have blue or pink eyes.