White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Still Burning via Flickr The terms complete heterochromia and sectoral heterochromia are mouthfuls and sound like technical jargon but really they just come from the term heterochromia iridis which is greek for. 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. Hope this is the fact.

He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. 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. 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.

These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye. 60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf. When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness unilateral and bilateral combined of 85 and 649 in cats with two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes.

Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. 30-40 had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 had one blue eye and normal hearing.

Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white.

He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye.