White Cats Deaf Eyes

No cats with white coats are not albino.

White cats deaf eyes. Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be related to their eye color. If the cat is a ForeignOriental White it carries the gene for Siamese Blue Eyes which is not linked to deafness the gene for Siamese Blue Eyes is linked to cross-eyes instead. Photo by Echo on Unsplash.

White cat with blue eyes. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes.

There is a genegene complex which causes white coat blue eyes and deafness but not all cats get their white coat and blue eyes from that particular gene so not all white cats will be deaf. About half of all white cats are deaf and people numbers improve in cats with blue eyes with deafness typically discovered on the identical facet because the blue eye left blue eye deaf in left ear. White color of the coat occurs in cats in the following three ways.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. Another thing about blue-eyed white cats is that they are photophobic. Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population.

As for odd-eyed white cats when a white cat has one orange or green and one blue eye the ear on the blue-eyed side is likely to be deaf whereas the one on the orange- or green-eyed side is usually fine. This gene can suppress and block other potential colors thus. Thus cats which are entirely white and have blue eyes are generally deaf.

Many cats are born with congenital deafness which causes deafness in the cat as it ages instead of later on. This percentage is even higher up to 40 in cats that have only one blue eye and somewhere between 65-85 of all-white cats are born deaf. White cats do not typically have visual or reproductive de- fects but they are prone to the occurrence of blue irises one or both and deafness either unilateral or bilateral.