White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

We have a largish long-haired white cat with one blue eye and one green eye.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. 20-40 have normal hearing. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness.

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. Still Burning via Flickr The terms complete heterochromia and sectoral heterochromia are mouthfuls and sound like technical jargon but really they just come from the term heterochromia iridis which is greek for. 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.

40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes. 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.

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. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf.

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5 of the cat population includes pure whites. Some white kittens are born deaf. 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.