White Cats Deafness Blue Eyes

A cat with blue eyes in cats will not have a dark coat any more than a cat with light eyes will have a dark coat.

White cats deafness blue eyes. 40 percent of cats with one blue eye are deaf and up to 85 percent of all white cats with two blue eyes have deafness. Furthermore if a cat has one blue eye and one green the ear on the side of the blue eye is more likely to be deaf than the other. Do white cats with blue eyes deaf.

All-white cats born with one blue eye experience congenital deafness in 40 of kittens while kittens born with two blue eyes have an 85 chance of being born deaf. 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 with 2 non-blue eyes. An estimated 40 percent of white cats with blue eyes are deaf which is high.

However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. 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. Coat color and an aspect of the cats personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cats colour and a gene which affects the way the brain develops are situated close together on the same chromosome.

Cats with blue eyes are often confused with kittens. The reason is the aforementioned W genotype. Unlike other white cats blue-eyed white cats have slightly different genetics.

People ask why white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Deafness in white cats with blue eyes is a form of congenital deafness medically known as unilateral or bilateral congenital sensorineural deafness. In the cat world white cats with blue eyes are very special kitties.

While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so. The uphill road to solving polygenic disorders The pure white cat with luminous blue eyes is an attrac-tive image familiar to many. When the white spot gene affects both eyes the cat will have blue eyes.