White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

Non-dominant white gene will not mask other colors and give full white coat on cats.

White male cats with blue eyes deaf. In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one on the orange-eyed side usually has normal hearing. Strain Louisiana State University. Are white cats with blue eyes blind or deaf.

The roll of the genetic dice that produces a white blue-eyed and typically. Apart from dominant white gene W white coat on the cat can occur from albino gene c or spotted gene S. 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.

The reason as you may have guessed is heredity. Pure white cats with blue eyes are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deafness that may affect one or both ears. As you may expect hereditary deafness in white cats is a real issue and presents a major concern in white cats and even more is if one or both irises are blue in color.

These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears. The deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear unilateral or both ears bilateral. Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss.

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats. And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia.

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. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. Cats with white Spots.