White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness.

20-40 have normal hearing. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf.

Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. 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. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem.

Some white kittens are born deaf. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely 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.