Are Most White Cat With Blue Eyes Deaf

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.

Are most white cat with blue eyes deaf. Having bi-colored eyes cuts the odds but i am not sure how much. The reason as you may have guessed is heredity. 31 of white cats and blue eyes had normal hearing.

Cheers --- terry tery pride APDT-Aus apdt1827 CVA IPDTA TDF. 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. I do not recall what the odds are for a M cat who is both blue-eyed and white to be deaf sorry.

Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. In some cases a completely white cat will have a gene with white spots resulting in odd eyes one blue and the other gold or green. The stats show that the blue-eyed white cat is prone to deafness incidence more than the normal cat.

However all white cats or kitten are likely to be deaf and it. Interestingly most white cats regardless of eye color exhibit a special kind of deafness. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability.

Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. Two blue eyes completely 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.

Statistically 85 of F white blue-eyed cats are entirely deaf. With two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. Far more common in cats with white coats than any other color white cats with blue eyes are often entirely deaf.