White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss.

White cats with blue eyes deaf. For years people believed that white cats are born with blue eyes and deaf. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color.

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. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. 25 of white cats with yellow eyes have normal hearing.

White coat on cats can occur as a result of the dominant white gene W. People ask why white cats with blue eyes are deaf. However they do have a higher chance to be deaf and the chance increased when the cat has blue eyes.

Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. The roll of the genetic dice that produces a white blue-eyed and typically.

Albino cats are not linked to deafness. Coat color and an aspect of the cats personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cats colour and a gene which affects the way the brain develops are situated close together on the same chromosome. In a cat with the white spot gene the deafness usually occurs in the ear affected by the spot.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. However that is not guaranteed. These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears.