Are Most White Cat With Blue Eyes Deaf

Many cats are born with congenital deafness which causes deafness in the cat as it ages instead of later on.

Are most white cat with blue eyes deaf. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. 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.

Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics. The stats show that the blue-eyed white cat is prone to deafness incidence more than the normal cat. Having bi-colored eyes cuts the odds but i am not sure how much.

However that is not guaranteed. First of all it can be said that not all white cats are deaf but they are more likely to be deaf since they carry the so-called gene W White of white in English especially those that have one eye of each color or blue eyes. Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be related to their eye color.

The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been determined to date and advanced statistical genetic analy-. Unless both ears are affected cats may. So not all white cats are deaf and not all blue-eyed white cats are deaf but a great many of them are so-affected.

For years people believed that white cats are born with blue eyes and deaf. The key determiner in deafness in all-white cats lies more in the color of their eyes than that of their coats. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others.

The variable penetrance of deafness and eye colour may be caused by interplay with other genes andor environmental factors. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. Cheers --- terry tery pride APDT-Aus apdt1827 CVA IPDTA TDF.