White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. Its my understanding that cats with only one blue eye are likely to be deaf in the ear nearest the blue eye but weve been unable to detect any problems with Toby. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. 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. Some white kittens are born deaf.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. 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. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.

So your sweetie may be half-hearing. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. What I know about deaf cats is this.

Blue Eyes and Deafness. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness.

The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are 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. 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.