White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
Not all of these cats are deaf see part 2 of this short article.
White male cats with blue eyes deaf. The reason as you may have guessed is heredity. These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability.
Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Two blue eyes completely deaf. White cats with blue eyes deaf White male cats with blue eyes 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. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. The roll of the genetic dice that produces a white blue-eyed and typically.
Are all cats with white fur and blue eyes deaf. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born deaf. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing.
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. Coat color and an aspect of the cats personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cats colour and a gene which affects the way the brain develops are situated close together on the same chromosome. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf.
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. As you may expect hereditary deafness in white cats is a real issue and presents a major concern in white cats and even more is if one or both irises are blue in color. 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.