White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. Blue Eyes and Deafness.

Furthermore if a cat has one blue eye and one green the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side. The movie with Bette Midler and a host of great actors.

--White felines who have odd eyes usually have one blue eye and one green or yellow eye--A lot of white kitties have both eyes of the same color. However it is possible for epistatic white cats with one blue eye to also be deaf on that side too as this particular gene can cause degeneration of the inner ear. 60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf.

While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. 5 of the cat population includes pure whites.

Its my understanding that cats with only one blue eye are likely to be deaf in the ear nearest the blue eye but weve been unable to detect any problems with Toby. We have a largish long-haired white cat with one blue eye and one green eye. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf.

A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. 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.