White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem.

60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye.

Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. The movie with Bette Midler and a host of great actors.

Cornell University - Ask Elizabeth. Its my understanding that cats with only one blue eye are likely to be deaf in the ear nearest the blue eye but weve been unable to detect any problems with Toby. As the white masking gene is responsible for the heterochromia in the majority of cats most odd-eyed cats are not deaf in one or both ears.

Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. Some white kittens are born deaf. If a white cat has 2 blue eyes it is 3-5 times more likely to be deaf than a cat with 2 non-blue eyes and a cat with 1 blue eye is about twice as likely to be deaf as a cat.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others.