White Cats With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf
The gene responsible for the deafness in white cats is dominant and symbolised by the letter W for white obviously.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. Not all white cats with blue eyes 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. White cats generally have blue eyes or reddish eyes within the case of albinos.
Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been. The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats.
Are all white cats deaf. The notion that blue-eyed white cats are deaf comes from many cats with Waardenburg syndrome being solid white with blue eyes. Are solid white cats with blue eyes deaf.
Albino cats are not linked to deafness. Eye color in white cats also relates to the potential for deafness. White cats with blue and green eyes deaf.
Can only detect less than 5000 characters1965RSPSPP162147B. According to scientists a gene called W is responsible for a cats appearance white skin and white hair color. In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one on the orange-eyed side usually has normal hearing.
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. Another thing about blue-eyed white cats is that they are photophobic. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.