White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes. 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. Still Burning via Flickr The terms complete heterochromia and sectoral heterochromia are mouthfuls and sound like technical jargon but really they just come from the term heterochromia iridis which is greek for.

Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. And in addition to Rios Sweetie.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. 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. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf.

60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf. 15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes. Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth.