White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. The percentage rises to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye while upwards of 65 to 85 percent of all-white cats with both eyes blue are deaf. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears.

So not all white cats are deaf and not all blue-eyed white cats are deaf but a great many of them are so-affected. Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. 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.

60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely deaf. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. Strangely blue eye white cats tend to be deaf even more than others.

Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. White color of the coat occurs in.

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. What I know about deaf cats is this. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

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. However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.