White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. What I know about deaf cats is this. As the white masking gene is responsible for the heterochromia in the majority of cats most odd-eyed cats are not deaf in one or both ears. Blue Eyes and Deafness.

40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born 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.

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus. 5 of the cat population includes pure whites.

15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. 60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf.

Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. If a white cat has 2 blue eyes it is 3-5 times more likely to be deaf than a cat with 2 non-blue eyes and a cat with 1 blue eye is about twice as likely to be deaf as a cat. First of all it can be said that not all white cats are deaf but they are more likely to be deaf since they carry the so-called gene W White of white in English especially those that have one eye of each color or blue eyes.

So your sweetie may be half-hearing. Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand.