White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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White cat with one blue eye deaf. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. 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. 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.

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. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. Hope this is the fact.

However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 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. 60 80 of the 5 have orange or green eyes and 20 of them are deaf.

The movie with Bette Midler and a host of great actors. He was an orphan born deaf with one blue and one green eye. We have a largish long-haired white cat with one blue eye and one green eye.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. Blue Eyes and Deafness. 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. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions.