White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are deaf.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. 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. The keyword is the dominant gene. 7 of white cats with yellow eyes were deaf.
Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s Bamber 1933 and. 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. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.
Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss. Albino cats are not linked to deafness. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.
Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well. However that is not guaranteed. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes.
Non-dominant white gene will not mask other colors and give full white coat on cats. And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability.
Around 40 of cats with white fur and blue eyes are deaf. White cats with blue eyes often suffer from a genetic defect that causes their cochlea a vital organ within the inner ear to degenerate shortly after birthWhite cats with eyes of other colours can usually hear. A cat with a gene with white spots like the tuxedo cat can have blue eyes or in some cases odd eyes.