White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. We have a largish long-haired white cat with one blue eye and one green 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.

Their whiteness Ive learnt is a matter of having no pigment at all which in many cases leads to ear-cancer when they are in the sun too long without protection. Hope this is the fact. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf.

As the white masking gene is responsible for the heterochromia in the majority of cats most odd-eyed cats are not deaf in one or both ears. Some of the cats were deaf in only one ear - interestingly if a cat had a blue eye on the right side of her head she tended to be deaf in the. 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.

Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.

60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. White Cats and BlindnessDeafness.

In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. Still Burning via Flickr The terms complete heterochromia and sectoral heterochromia are mouthfuls and sound like technical jargon but really they just come from the term heterochromia iridis which is greek for.