White Cats With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

While this could be true to some extent it doesnt make black and white cats that much different from other cats of.

White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. Another thing about blue-eyed white cats is that they are photophobic. 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. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear.

Are solid white cats with blue eyes deaf. Among white cats with two blue eyes about 60-80 are deaf. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

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. The mech-anism of inheritance of deafness in white cats has not been. In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one on the orange-eyed side usually has normal hearing.

Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. 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.

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. Why are white cats with blue eyes usually deaf. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies.

Why are white catswith blue eyes usually deaf. The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are deaf. In cats inherited congenital present from birth.