White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Hope this is the fact. 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. As the white masking gene is responsible for the heterochromia in the majority of cats most odd-eyed cats are not deaf in one or both ears.

However it is possible for epistatic white cats with one blue eye to also be deaf on that side too as this particular gene can cause degeneration of the inner ear. He was an orphan born deaf with one blue and one green eye. 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.

However the prevalence of white cats does vary in different geographies. 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. Are odd-eyed cats deaf in one or both ears.

In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. Sectoral heterochromia is when the iris of a single eye contains two colors so a single eye may be split between blue and green. Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

Cornell University cites a study that found that 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non-blue eyes were born deaf. We have a largish long-haired white cat with one blue eye and one green eye. --White felines who have odd eyes usually have one blue eye and one green or yellow eye--A lot of white kitties have both eyes of the same color.

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. A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye.