White Cats Deafness Blue Eyes

In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one.

White cats deafness blue eyes. The deafness is linked to the so-called W gene. According to the Cornell Feline Health Center only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes are born with hearing loss. Their eye color is mainly due to a cellular issue.

White cats with blue eyes are more likely to be deaf than white cats with gold or green eyes. 40 percent of cats with one blue eye are deaf and up to 85 percent of all white cats with two blue eyes have deafness. A cat with a gene with white spots like the tuxedo cat can have blue eyes or in some cases odd eyes.

When the white spot gene affects both eyes the cat will have blue eyes. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. Dominant epistatic white is a masking gene that overrides all other coat colours and is symbolised with the letters W D.

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. When one or both eyes are blue anywhere from 60 to.

Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Overall statistics indicate that. Deafness in blue-eyed white cats.

Coat color and an aspect of the cats personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cats colour and a gene which affects the way the brain develops are situated close together on the same chromosome. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well.