White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. 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. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. 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. A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness.

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. When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness unilateral and bilateral combined of 85 and 649 in cats with two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.

In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing. Hope this is the fact. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf.

Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others.

And in addition to Rios Sweetie. Its my understanding that cats with only one blue eye are likely to be deaf in the ear nearest the blue eye but weve been unable to detect any problems with Toby. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem.