White Cats Deaf Eyes

When one or both eyes are blue anywhere from 60 to 80 of white cats will be deaf.

White cats deaf eyes. This occurs during fetal development after conception the embryo splits into three primitive germ layers. White cats have white coats because the gene for white fur trumps all other potential colors. White coat on cats can occur as a result of the dominant white gene W.

Photo by Echo on Unsplash. Many cats are born with congenital deafness which causes deafness in the cat as it ages instead of later on. When it is albino with blue eyes gen cat o with red eyes gen c for example.

However they do have a higher chance to be deaf and the chance increased when the cat has blue eyes. In those with only one blue eye 30-40 will be deaf so the majority will have normal hearing. 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.

Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population. These cats are three to five times more likely to be deaf than white cats with non-blue eyes. Statistically white cats with blue eyes with congenital deafness make up around 1 to 15 of the total cat population.

Overall statistics indicate that. White cats with blue eyes had a high probability. And if the white cat has a different eye color for each eye heterochromia.

There is a genegene complex which causes white coat blue eyes and deafness but not all cats get their white coat and blue eyes from that particular gene so not all white cats will be deaf. Black and white cats with blue eyes have a much more common type of hearing and vision problem that may be related to their eye color. First of all it can be said that not all white cats are deaf but they are more likely to be deaf since they carry the so-called gene W White of white in English especially those that have one eye of each color or blue eyes.