Are All White Cats With Blue Eyes Deaf

About half of all white cats are deaf and those numbers increase in cats with blue eyes with deafness often found on the same side as the blue eye left blue eye deaf in.

Are all white cats with blue eyes deaf. The good news is a white cat is not prone to blindness. Many people wonder if deafness in cats with blue eyes or in white cats is an old wives tale or a fact. Albino cats are not linked to deafness.

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 right ear and vice versa. 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. White cats with blue eyes often suffer from a genetic defect that causes their cochlea a vital organ within the inner ear to degenerate shortly after birthWhite cats with eyes of other colours can usually hear.

The deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear unilateral or. However not all white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Not all white Cats are 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. Photo by Echo on Unsplash. Unless both ears are affected cats may never show any signs of hearing loss.

40 percent of white cats with one blue eye were deaf. White cats with blue eyes are more likely to be deaf however than white cats with gold or green eyes. 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.

And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. 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. Not all blue-eyed white cats are deaf but many of them are.