White Cats Deafness Blue Eyes

Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics.

White cats deafness blue eyes. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. As for odd-eyed white cats when a white cat has one orange or green and one blue eye the ear on the blue-eyed side is likely to be deaf whereas the one on the orange- or green-eyed side is usually fine.

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. When the gene affects only one eye the cat will have odd eyes. Do white cats with blue eyes deaf.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many.

In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well. 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.

Cats with just one deaf ear may appear perfectly normal and their. 40 percent of cats with one blue eye are deaf and up to 85 percent of all white cats with two blue eyes have deafness. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Not all of these cats are deaf see part 2 of this short article. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene.