White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears.

White male cats with blue eyes deaf. A survey of 185 white cats reported the following results. And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia. The white spotting factor is associated with deafness if the white areas reach the ears.

Apart from dominant white gene W white coat on the cat can occur from albino gene c or spotted gene S. Two blue eyes completely deaf. Are white cats with blue eyes blind or deaf.

Around 40 of cats with white fur and blue eyes are deaf. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Non-dominant white gene will not mask other colors and give full white coat on cats.

White cats with blue eyes often suffer from a genetic defect that causes their cochlea a vital organ within the inner ear to degenerate shortly after birthWhite cats with eyes of other colours can usually hear. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. 31 of white cats and blue eyes had normal hearing.

The gene responsible is an autosomal dominant gene termed W for White. 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. Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes.

Not all of these cats are deaf see part 2 of this short article. Another thing about blue-eyed white cats is that they are photophobic. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many.