White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Interestingly if a white cat with one blue eye is deaf in only one ear that ear will invariably be on the same side of the head as the blue eye. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. Some white kittens are born deaf.

White color of the coat occurs in. Hope this is the fact. Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf.

5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. 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. A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye.

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. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. And in addition to Rios Sweetie.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. 15 40 of the 5 have one or both eyes that are blue. 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.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes. --White felines who have odd eyes usually have one blue eye and one green or yellow eye--A lot of white kitties have both eyes of the same color.