White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. The deaf ear is usually on the same side as the blue eye. Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss. Cats with just one deaf ear may.
Around 40 of cats with white fur and blue eyes are deaf. 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. Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact.
The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many. Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s Bamber 1933 and. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born 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. Not all white cat or white cats with blue eyes are deaf.
As you may expect hereditary deafness in white cats is a real issue and presents a major concern in white cats and even more is if one or both irises are blue in color. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. Are most white cats with blue eyes deaf.
The white spotting factor can create blue-eyed or odd-eyed cats if it reaches one or both eyes. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. 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.