White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. What I know about deaf cats is this. 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.

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side.

He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem. The reason is the aforementioned W genotype.

White color of the coat occurs in. 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. 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.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. He was an orphan born deaf with one blue and one green eye. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green.

Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes. Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing.