Do White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

Pure white cats with blue eyes are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deafness that may affect one or both ears.

Do white cats with blue eyes deaf. Some people claim that 99 of blue-eyed white cats are deaf. About half of all white cats have one or two blue eyes. These animals are well-known to be commonly affected by a congenital hereditary deaf-ness that may affect one or both ears.

The variable penetrance of deafness and eye colour may be caused by interplay with other genes andor environmental factors. Among white cats with two blue eyes about 60-80 are deaf. The rest of the white cats typically have orange or green eyes and they are usually neither deaf.

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. According to scientists a gene called W is responsible for a cats appearance white skin and white hair color. Reports of this condition date back to at least the 1930s Bamber 1933 and many investigators have studied it in.

Eye color in white cats also relates to the potential for deafness. White color of the coat occurs in cats. Older cats with the same eye color as humans may not be able to hear things very well when they are young and as they grow older they may not be able to do anything about it.

Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be. From Deafness in blue-eyed white cats by George M. Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color.

An estimated 40 percent of white cats with blue eyes are deaf which is high. As for white cats with only one blue eye about 30-40 will be deaf. The reason as you may have guessed is heredity.