White Cats With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

The blue eyes in a piebald or epistatic white cat indicates a lack of tapetum.

White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. Deafness in the white cat is generally seen in the inherited congenital deficiencies found mainly in the white-coated cats. White cats with blue and green eyes deaf. White cats generally have blue eyes or reddish eyes within the case of albinos.

Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been.

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 with 2 non-blue eyes. 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. In cats inherited congenital present from birth.

Are solid white cats with blue eyes deaf. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. The gene responsible for the deafness in white cats is dominant and symbolised by the letter W for white obviously.

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. The degeneration of the auditory apparatus near the ear cause deafness in the white cat.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. 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. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear.