White Cats Deaf Eyes

Once again the brilliant scientist was right since between 56 and 90 of cats according to different studies with white coat and blue eye color are deaf from one or both ears.

White cats deaf eyes. White cats do not typically have visual or reproductive de- fects but they are prone to the occurrence of blue irises one or both and deafness either unilateral or bilateral. Blue-eyed cats are more often deaf than white cats with other coloured eyes. However they do have a higher chance to be deaf and the chance increased when the cat has blue eyes.

Many cats are born with congenital deafness which causes deafness in the cat as it ages instead of later on. The good news is a white cat is not prone to blindness. This gene can suppress and block other potential colors thus.

Another common feature of white cats to highlight is the fact they can have eyes of almost any color. No cats with white coats are not albino. Overall statistics indicate that.

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. About half of all white cats are deaf and people numbers improve in cats with blue eyes with deafness typically discovered on the identical facet because the blue eye left blue eye deaf in left ear. Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population.

As for odd-eyed white cats when a white cat has one orange or green and one blue eye the ear on the blue-eyed side is likely to be deaf whereas the one on the orange- or green-eyed side is usually fine. 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 coat on cats can occur as a result of the dominant white gene W.

If the cat is a ForeignOriental White it carries the gene for Siamese Blue Eyes which is not linked to deafness the gene for Siamese Blue Eyes is linked to cross-eyes instead. The easiest way to determine whether or not a cat is an albino is by looking at their eyes. White color of the coat occurs in cats in the following three ways.