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. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye. 60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green.

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. White Cats and BlindnessDeafness. What I know about deaf cats is this.

Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes. 15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes.

The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side. So not all white cats are deaf and not all blue-eyed white cats are deaf but a great many of them are so-affected. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf.

As the white masking gene is responsible for the heterochromia in the majority of cats most odd-eyed cats are not deaf in one or both ears. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. 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.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand.