Are Solid White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

The reason as you may have guessed is heredity.

Are solid white cats with blue eyes deaf. The roll of the genetic dice that produces a white blue-eyed and typically. 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. Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be related to their eye color.

We just use hand signals to communicate with him. Cataracts can happen to both kittens and adult cats. My vet said they dont have the gene to hear.

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. Interestingly if a white cat with one blue eye is deaf in only one ear that ear will invariably be on the same side of the head as the blue eye. Can only detect less than 5000 characters1965RSPSPP162147B.

Apart from dominant white gene W white coat on the cat can occur from albino gene c. Some white kittens are born deaf. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.

NO not all pure white cats with blue eyes are deaf however. It is true that solid white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Cats who are solid white or mostly white may have blue green gold or copper eyes.

My solid white beauty Claire has had a few health issues but nothing to do with her color. But kittens have blue eyes due to a genetic mutation that happens during the development of the embryo. Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population.