White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
Deafness in blue-eyed white cats.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. 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. Two blue eyes completely deaf. When the white spot gene affects both eyes the cat will have blue eyes.
Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes. Non-dominant white gene will not mask other colors and give full white coat on cats. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.
The white spotting factor is associated with deafness if the white areas reach the ears. Another thing about blue-eyed white cats is that they are photophobic. 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.
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. Not all white cat or white cats with blue eyes are deaf. 7 of white cats with yellow eyes were deaf.
Are all cats with white fur and blue eyes deaf. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born deaf. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.
A survey of 185 white cats reported the following results. Cats with just one deaf ear may. White cats with blue eyes deaf White male cats with blue eyes deaf.