White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

Dominant epistatic white is a masking gene that overrides all other coat colours and is symbolised with the letters W D.

White cats with blue eyes deaf. For this reason a cat with odd eyes can be deaf from the ear that is on the side of the blue eye. Albino cats are not linked to deafness. Can a cat with blue eyes be 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. 25 of white cats with yellow eyes have normal hearing. Two blue eyes completely deaf.

The good news is a white cat is not prone to blindness. In fact only 85 of white cats are born with blue eyes while the rest of the white cats are born with brown eyes or some other color. However that is not guaranteed.

Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. However not all white coat cats have blue eyes.

Deafness in blue-eyed white cats. Some cats are deaf in only one ear. The deaf ear is usually on the same side as the blue eye.

And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia it will be deaf on the side where it has the blue eye. Not all of these cats are deaf see part 2 of this short article. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many.