White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

So your sweetie may be half-hearing.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. 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. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. 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.

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. Still Burning via Flickr The terms complete heterochromia and sectoral heterochromia are mouthfuls and sound like technical jargon but really they just come from the term heterochromia iridis which is greek for.

--White felines who have odd eyes usually have one blue eye and one green or yellow eye--A lot of white kitties have both eyes of the same color. Some of the cats were deaf in only one ear - interestingly if a cat had a blue eye on the right side of her head she tended to be deaf in the. And in addition to Rios Sweetie.

He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

15 40 of the 5 have one or both eyes that are blue. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. 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.

20-40 have normal hearing. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf.