White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness 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.

White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem. 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. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. 30-40 had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 had one blue eye and normal hearing. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing.

The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie.

Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. Blue Eyes and Deafness. 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.