White Cats With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact.

White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. However a lot of white cats with blue eyes are. Not all white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Not all white Cats are Deaf.

40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. A cat with an extreme form of the white-spotting gene may have more-or-less the same coloring maybe a few blond or gray hairs but is no more likely to be deaf than any other cat. No this is not always the case.

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. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been.

The gene responsible for the deafness in white cats is dominant and symbolised by the letter W for white obviously. 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. Can a cat with blue eyes be deaf.

Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well. For those cats with other colored eyes only 10-20 are deaf. This percentage is even higher up to 40 in cats that have only one blue eye and somewhere between 65-85 of all-white cats are born deaf.