White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

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.

White cats with blue eyes deaf. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many. Some cats are deaf in only one ear. The deaf ear is usually on the same side as the blue eye.

Dominant epistatic white is a masking gene that overrides all other coat colours and is symbolised with the letters W D. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. 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.

These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. Can a cat with blue eyes be deaf.

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Overall statistics indicate that. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.

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. Of course there is no universal law that decrees. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

Photo by Echo on Unsplash. Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes. Two blue eyes completely deaf.