White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

25 of white cats with yellow eyes have normal hearing.

White cats with blue eyes deaf. The reason as you may have guessed is heredity. In a cat with the white spot gene the deafness usually occurs in the ear affected by the spot. White cats have always aroused curiosity in humans.

Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color. Photo by Echo on Unsplash. The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are deaf.

Deafness is more likely to occur in white cats with blue eyes. In odd-eyed white cats the ear on the blue-eyed side may be deaf but the one. 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.

It shows that Ragdolls or more specifically a white Ragdoll the blue eyes are a given is quite likely to be deaf. The fact is that hereditary deafness does tend to be a serious concern in white cats. 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.

Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population. What is an all white cat called. White cat with blue eyes.

Not all of these cats are deaf see part 2 of this short article. The blue eyes and white coat are a result of a lack of melanin in pigment cells. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well.