White Cat With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf
White spotting and white are also different genes but it's the white that can cause deafness. In a cat with the white spot gene the deafness usually occurs in the ear affected by the spot.
It looks like this beauty is going to have a blue eye
Albino cats, however, often have eyes that look very pale blue, pink, or red.
White cat with blue eyes are usually deaf. I asked a vet and she said that cats with blue eye could be deaf. Unless both ears are affected, cats may never show any signs of hearing loss. This occurs during fetal development, after conception, the embryo splits into three primitive germ layers:
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. Many cats are born with congenital deafness, which causes deafness in the cat as it ages, instead of later on. It's the way that their genetics are put together and stuff idk.
Joined feb 14, 2005 messages 2,520 reaction score 3 location 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf; Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s (bamber, 1933), and many investigators have studied it in.
Of white cats with one blue eye, about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear. And, if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye (heterochromia. Two blue eyes, completely deaf.
Blue eyed cats are more often deaf than white cats with other coloured eyes. White cats with one or two blue eyes do, however, have a higher incidence of genetic deafness, with the white gene occasionally causing the. Congenital sensorineural deafness occurs commonly in domestic cats with a white coat.
Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. They have approximately a 20 percent chance of being deaf to some degree. For this reason a cat with odd eyes can be deaf from the ear that is on the side of the blue eye.
In a feral situation deaf white cats experience strong negative natural selection pressure as: Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be related to their eye color. Albino cats are not linked to deafness.
Cats that have the dominant white gene can sometimes, but not always, have blue eyes. When it comes to white cats, they can be deaf no matter the eye color. Let’s begin with our list of white cat with blue eyes breed:
And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Cats with blue eyes are not necessarily deaf and should not be made to suffer because of it. Jul 20, 2005 #7 ollyextra05 tcs member.
Eye color in white cats also relates to the potential for deafness. This cat is characterized by its curly hair, which is the product of a genetic mutation. They are photophobic (intolerant of bright light because of the blue eyes) they have reduced vision in low.
White cats with blue eyes had a high probability. Pointed cats, like siamese, who have a lighter body and darker extremities, always have blue eyes. White cats with one blue eye (the other is usually yellow or gold) have about a 40% chance of being deaf in both or one ear.
White spotted cats are rarely deaf and the once that are are mostly high grade white but i guess low grade white spotting can cause deafness id the white spotting runs over the ear. Genes that limit cat coloration result in blue eyes. White cats have always aroused curiosity in humans.
Why are blue eyed white cats usually deaf. The selkirk rex is a cat breed from the united states, 1988. He is deaf, the vet said that usually they have a 50/50 chance of being deaf with two different colored eyes.
Then again there was a brown cat with blue eyes. How do cats get blue eyes? White cats are also genetically more predisposed to being deaf.
The reason, as you may have guessed, is heredity: I have seen two that are white with blue eyes. A white cat with one blue eye has a 39% chance of at least partial deafness, and a white cat with two blue eyes may have a 65% chance.
I have never heard of a white cat with blue eyes going deaf later in life though. It's a persian and its 6 weeks old, i never get to c it alot because of school, her ears don't seen to be seen because they r short so you don't know if they r moving or not when something happens. The easiest way to determine whether or not a cat is an albino is by looking at their eyes.
White cats, as previously mentioned, can have a wide range of eye colors. It is a congenital deafness caused by a degeneration of the inner ear. A pure white cat with blue eyes has an 85 percent chance of some degree of deafness.
I was just asking because my kitten has blue eyes & my friend said that all cats that have blue eyes are deaf. Some breeds of white cats stand out for the coloration of their eyes. Losing a cat’s blue eyes is usually the result of too much cataract medication being used, or too many cataract surgeries being performed.
Felines with a single blue eye are often deaf in one hear (usually the ear on the same side as their blue eye), while two blue eyes make an ivory cat likely to suffer total deafness in both ears. In addition, longhaired white cats are 3 times more likely to be bilaterally deaf. According to the aspca complete guide to cats, 17 to 20 percent of white cats with nonblue eyes are deaf;
The deaf ear is usually on the same side as the blue eye. When one or both eyes are blue, anywhere from 60% to 80% of white cats will be deaf. White cat with two different colored eyes usually means deafness as is the case with my mom's cat.
About half of all white cats are deaf, and those numbers increase in cats with blue eyes, with deafness often found on the same side as the blue eye — left blue eye, deaf in left ear; I think it's white cats with 2 different colored eyes (like one could be blue, one is another color) that are usually deaf. Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats, and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color.
My white cat has 2 blue eyes, and he's not deaf. If the eye color of the cat is completely white, then blue eyes in cats is highly unlikely. Deafness is far more common in white cats than in those with other coat colours.
