White Cat With One Blue Eye 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.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears. Some white kittens are born deaf.

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. A detailed study was conducted in the year 1997 of white cats with varying degree of deafness and it was found that more than 70 cats were suffering from deafness. Gallaudet University - Cat breeds with tendency to hereditary deafness.

He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. 15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies.

60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf. White Cats and BlindnessDeafness. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. Hope this is the fact. 40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.

Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes.