Strangely, blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. A cat with a gene with white spots (like the tuxedo cat) can have blue eyes or in some cases odd eyes.
Supposedly allwhite cats with blue eyes are deaf
Again, this is not always the case.
White cat with one blue eye deaf. Cats with blue eyes can sometimes have visual or auditory deficiencies. In one 1997 study of white cats, 72% of the animals were found to be totally deaf. This is a feline form of complete heterochromia, a condition that occurs in some other animals, including humans.
Black and white cats are just like any other cat in terms of their hearing and vision abilities. Deafness can occur in white cats with yellow, green or blue irises, although it is mostly likely in white cats with blue irises. The condition most commonly affects white cats, but may be found in a cat of any color, provided that it possesses the white spotting gene.
Blue eyed cats are more often deaf than white cats with other coloured eyes. 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: When it comes to white cats, they can be deaf no matter the eye color.
The deaf ear is usually on the same side as the blue eye. Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats, and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color. Heterochromia can be inherited, congenital or acquired.
This occurs during fetal development, after conception, the embryo splits into three primitive germ layers: White spotted cats are rarely deaf and the once that are are mostly high grade white but i guess low grade white spotting can cause deafness id the white spotting runs over the ear. However, the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies.
It's also best to keep a partially deaf or fully deaf cat indoors at all. Well, opinions vary, and so do research conclusions. You can help a deaf cat lead a happy, full life by keeping it protected indoors and learning to use visual signals and vibrations to communicate.
A white cat with one blue eye has a 39% chance of at least partial deafness, and a white cat with two blue eyes may have a 65% chance. Of white cats with one blue eye, about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. How do cats get blue eyes?
The w gene responsible for white coat and blue eye is closely related to the hearing ability, and presence of a blue eye can indicate the cat is deaf to the side the blue eye is located. Domesticated cats with blue eyes and white coats are often completely deaf. Once again, the brilliant scientist was right since between 56% and 90% of cats (according to different studies) with white coat and blue eye color are deaf from one or both ears.
White spotting and white are also different genes but it's the white that can cause deafness. White cats with one blue eye (the other is usually yellow or gold) have about a 40% chance of being deaf in both or one ear. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye.
The other may be green, copper or brown. Disorders of cats with blue eyes. Since the cat eye color can play a huge role in the hearing abilities of a cat, finding out the cause of your cat’s hearing problem may help you address the issue before it gets worse.
A white cat with both eyes that are blue are deaf. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats, why is this so? There is a relationship between white cats with blue eyes and genetic deafness, though not all cats with this combination will be affected.
Epistatic gene, commonly referred to as dominant white, is the gene that produces white cats with blue, orange or odd color eyes and this mutation is most closely related to deafness. Let’s begin with our list of white cat with blue eyes breed: There is also partial heterochromia, where there can be one blue eye and one eye that is partially blue and partially another color.
Usually, not always the side with the blue eye is the deaf eye. Some breeds of white cats stand out for the coloration of their eyes. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf;
The selkirk rex is a cat breed from the united states, 1988. 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. Also, a cat could be deaf from birth for reasons other than the white coat/blue eye combo.
Need less to say your cat is not totally deaf either way. When the white spot gene affects both eyes the cat will have blue eyes. There is more than one gene that causes white coats/blue eyes, and only that particular gene also causes deafness.
Continue to 3 of 8 below. Photography by belinda pretorius / shutterstock. When one or both eyes are blue, anywhere from 60% to 80% of white cats will be deaf.
Either is is only deaf in one ear or completely fine hearing out of both ears. Felines with a single blue eye are often deaf in one hear (usually the ear on the same side as their blue eye), while two blue eyes make an ivory cat likely to suffer total deafness in both ears. White cats can have blue, gold, green or copper coloured odd eyes.
Many (but not all) white cats are deaf. This is a feline form of complete heterochromia. The reason is the aforementioned w.
Of course, a potential owner will want to know the chances of her white cat being deaf. Their eye color is decided by something called melanin. A pure white cat with blue eyes has an 85 percent chance of some degree of deafness.
And in addition to rio's sweetie: When the gene affects only one eye the cat will have odd eyes. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.
Furthermore, if a cat has one blue eye and one green, the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. This cat is characterized by its curly hair, which is the product of a genetic mutation. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.
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