White Male Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

White cats with one blue eye and one yellow eye are often deaf on the ear on the side of the blue eye left eye blue.

White male cats with blue eyes deaf. The white spotting factor can create blue-eyed or odd-eyed cats if it reaches one or both eyes. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. 7 of white cats with yellow eyes were deaf.

The roll of the genetic dice that produces a white blue-eyed and typically. The white spotting factor is associated with deafness if the white areas reach the ears. Are all cats with white fur and blue eyes deaf.

Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss. Cats with white Spots. Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population.

Pure white cats with blue eyes are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deafness that may affect one or both ears. Some of the cats were deaf in only one ear - interestingly if a cat had a blue eye on the right side of her head she tended to be deaf in the. The deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear unilateral or both ears bilateral.

Are most white cats with blue eyes deaf. Apart from dominant white gene W white coat on the cat can occur from albino gene c or spotted gene S. Interestingly if a white cat with one blue eye is deaf in only one ear that ear will invariably be on the same side of the head as the blue eye.

Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well. Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s Bamber 1933 and. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born deaf.