White Cat With Blue Eyes Not Deaf

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White cat with blue eyes not deaf. The possible eye colors of white cats includes. And 65 to 85. The gene responsible for the deafness in white cats is dominant and symbolised by the letter W for white obviously.

White cat with two different colored eyes usually means deafness as is the case with my moms cat. Also if the cat is not born deaf they have a very small chance of becoming deaf--unless. Their eye color is mainly due to a cellular issue.

Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics. Theres a relationship between white cats with blue eyes and genetic deafness although not all cats with this mix will likely be affected. In cats congenital deafness is seen almost exclusively in white coated individuals.

Kellinahandbasket 16 years ago. I know that in an odd-eyed white cat the cat is deaf on the blue-eyed side. My white cat has 2 blue eyes and hes not deaf.

No this is not always the case. Heterochromia eyes of two different colors The color of the cats eyes will be determined by the stem cells found in the layer that surrounds the eye. White cats with no blue eyes have about a 19 chance of being deaf in both or one ear.

The deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear unilateral or both bilateral. Thus deafness is strongly linked to the white coat colour and blue eye colour but not all white cats or white cats with blue eyes are necessarily 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.