White Cat With Blue Eyes Are Usually Deaf

No this is not always the case.

White cat with blue eyes are usually deaf. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others. This is especially important for white cats with blue eyes. Do white cats with blue eyes deaf.

Their whiteness Ive learnt is a matter of having no pigment at all which in many cases leads to ear-cancer when they are in the sun too long without protection. 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. The degeneration of the auditory apparatus near the ear cause deafness in the white cat.

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. The gene responsible for the deafness in white cats is dominant and symbolised by the letter W for white obviously.

White cats with two blue eyes have a 85 649 chance of being deaf in both or one ear. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. However not all white coat cats have blue eyes.

Eye color in white cats also relates to the potential for deafness. And in addition to Rios Sweetie. 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.

And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia. Pure white cats only make up about 5 of the overall cat population. In reality the chances of a white cat being born deaf are only 22.