White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

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.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. Some of the cats were deaf in only one ear - interestingly if a cat had a blue eye on the right side of her head she tended to be deaf in the. Hope this is the fact.

A cat with two different eyes one blue and one other colour is usually deaf but only on the side of the blue eye. 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. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me.

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. He would still suckle on the palm of my hand. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white. These cats will have hearing loss on the same side that she has a blue eye. While there is a clear correlation between the blue eye color and deafness in white cats why is this so.

Their whiteness Ive learnt is a matter of having no pigment at all which in many cases leads to ear-cancer when they are in the sun too long without protection. 15 40 of the 5 have one or both eyes that are blue. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

5 of the cat population includes pure whites. In those cats with eyes of another colour only 10-20 are likely to be deaf. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf.