White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. Blue Eyes and Deafness. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.

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. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me.

The deafness in these cats is more likely to influence the ear on the blue eyed side. 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. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf.

White Cats and BlindnessDeafness. 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. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green.

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. 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. Some white kittens are born deaf.

Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population. 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. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye.