White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf
Of course there is no universal law that decrees.
White cats with blue eyes deaf. These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears. Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Some cats are deaf in only one ear.
These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. Photo by Echo on Unsplash.
The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia it will be deaf on the side where it has the blue eye.
However not all white coat cats have blue eyes. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well. Of white cats with one blue eye about 40 percent are deaf in at least one ear.
Instead they develop severe hearing loss leading to congenital. White cat with blue eyes. However this color defect is also responsible for affecting the thin lining on the inner ear essential for your cats hearing.
Albino cats are not linked to deafness. The reason as you may have guessed is heredity. Cataracts are not the only cause of cats with blue eyes.