White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness unilateral and bilateral combined of 85 and 649 in cats with two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand.

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. 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. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf.

20-40 have normal hearing. 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. The movie with Bette Midler and a host of great actors.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem. So your sweetie may be half-hearing.

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. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye.

White Cats and BlindnessDeafness. Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.