White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss. Apart from dominant white gene W white coat on the cat can occur from albino gene c or spotted gene S. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing.
White cats with one blue eye and one yellow eye are often deaf on the ear on the side of the blue eye left eye blue. Are all cats with white fur and blue eyes deaf. These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears.
Cats with white Spots. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many. When the gene affects only one eye the cat will have odd eyes.
A survey of 185 white cats reported the following results. Are white cats with blue eyes blind or deaf. Some of the cats were deaf in only one ear - interestingly if a cat had a blue eye on the right side of her head she tended to be deaf in the.
Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. The deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear unilateral or both ears bilateral. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability.
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. However that is not guaranteed. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf.