White Cat With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia.

White cat with blue eyes are usually deaf. The degeneration of the auditory apparatus near the ear cause deafness in the white cat. In cat genetics the gene that gives a pure white cat its white fur is also linked to the development of its ears and eyes. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

A cat with blue eyes in cats will not have a dark coat any more than a cat with light eyes will have a dark coat. White cats with one blue eye and one yellow eye are often deaf on the ear on the side of the blue eye left eye blue. As we have mentioned previously not all white cats with blue eyes are prone to deafness.

White cats with one blue eye have a 40 percent chance of deafness. Researchers found that 40 percent of white cat with one blue eye are born deaf and 65 to 85 percent when both eyes blue. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.

White cats with two blue eyes have a 85 649 chance of being deaf in both or one ear. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf.

Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics. Are all white cats deaf. Do white cats with blue eyes deaf.

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. 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. About half of all white cats are deaf and those numbers increase in cats with blue eyes with deafness often found on the same side as the blue eye left blue eye deaf in left ear.