White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side. 5 of the cat population includes pure whites. 30-40 had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 had one blue eye and normal hearing.

While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing. 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.

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. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. --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 not all white cats are deaf and not all blue-eyed white cats are deaf but a great many of them are so-affected. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth.

Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. 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. What I know about deaf cats is this.

Some white kittens are born deaf. Hope this is the fact. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me.