White Cat With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

Deafness in blue-eyed white cats.

White cat with blue eyes are usually deaf. Eye color in white cats also relates to the potential for deafness. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. And in addition to Rios Sweetie.

A cat with blue eyes in cats will not have a dark coat any more than a cat with light eyes will have a dark coat. Two blue eyes completely deaf. Their whiteness Ive learnt is a matter of having no pigment at all which in many cases leads to ear-cancer when they are in the sun too long without protection.

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 with 2 non-blue eyes. In fact only 85 of white cats are born with blue eyes while the rest of the white cats are born with brown eyes or some other color. Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics.

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. Furthermore if a cat has one blue eye and one green the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. These hearing problems are not breed-specific so white blue-eyed Persians are as likely as other cat species to be deaf.

However a lot of white cats with blue eyes are. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. White cats with one blue eye have a 40 percent chance of deafness.

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. The combination of blue eyes and a white coat indicates the cat may have a gene that causes deafness. Of these white cats however 72 are deaf.