White Cat With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

White cats generally have blue eyes or reddish eyes within the case of albinos.

White cat with blue eyes are usually deaf. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability. 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. According to a 2015 study published in Current Biology white cats comprise 5 of the total cat.

Furthermore if a cat has one blue eye and one green the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. The reason is the aforementioned W. 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.

No this is not always the case. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Overall statistics indicate that.

Of these white cats however 72 are deaf. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. In cat genetics the gene that gives a pure white cat its white fur is also linked to the development of its ears and eyes.

This is especially important for white cats with blue eyes. 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. Are all white cats deaf.

As for odd-eyed white cats when a white cat has one orange or green and one blue eye the ear on the blue-eyed side is likely to be deaf whereas the one on the orange- or green-eyed side is usually fine. Deafness in the white cat is generally seen in the inherited congenital deficiencies found mainly in the white-coated cats. In reality the chances of a white cat being born deaf are only 22.