White Cat With One Blue Eye Deaf

Overall deaf cats with white coat colour and one or both blue eyes make up around about 1-15 of the total cat population.

White cat with one blue eye deaf. 20-40 have normal hearing. However in white cats with two blue eyes roughly 60-80 are likely to be deaf. Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear.

15-40 of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes. 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. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me.

15 40 of the 5 have one or both eyes that are blue. The movie with Bette Midler and a host of great actors. Interestingly if a white cat with one blue eye is deaf in only one ear that ear will invariably be on the same side of the head as the blue eye.

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

When Mair 1973 and Bergsma Brown 1971 examined the effect of blue eye color on deafness they found respectively a prevalence of deafness unilateral and bilateral combined of 85 and 649 in cats with two blue eyes 40 and 391 in cats with one blue eye and 167 and 22 in cats with no blue eyes. 60 80 of the fully white cats with one or both blue eyes are likely 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.

5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. So your sweetie may be half-hearing. 5 of the cat population includes pure whites.