White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem.

30-40 had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 had one blue eye and normal hearing. If a white cat has 2 blue eyes it is 3-5 times more likely to be deaf than a cat with 2 non-blue eyes and a cat with 1 blue eye is about twice as likely to be deaf as a cat. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth.

40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf.

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. The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green.

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. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. First of all it can be said that not all white cats are deaf but they are more likely to be deaf since they carry the so-called gene W White of white in English especially those that have one eye of each color or blue eyes.