White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

Some cats are deaf in only one ear.

White cats with blue eyes deaf. When one or both eyes are blue anywhere from 60 to. Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes. Typically cats experiencing these hearing issues are not born deaf.

However not all white coat cats have blue eyes. 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. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many. White cat with blue eyes. Deafness in blue-eyed white cats.

White coat on cats can occur as a result of the dominant white gene W. However that is not guaranteed. However they do have a higher chance to be deaf and the chance increased when the cat has blue eyes.

A survey of 185 white cats reported the following results. That ocean deep eye color goes perfectly with a smooth white coat. 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.

This situation witnesses a higher incidence with cats who possess a singular blue eye. Coat color and an aspect of the cats personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cats colour and a gene which affects the way the brain develops are situated close together on the same chromosome. Dominant epistatic white is a masking gene that overrides all other coat colours and is symbolised with the letters W D.