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. He would YEOOOWL when he saw me as he couldnt hear me. And 65 to 85 percent of white cats with two blue eyes were deaf. Some have blue eyes and others have green or yellow eyes.

Some of these cats are deaf in only one ear. 5 of the cat population includes pure whites. My Binx was named after the cat in Hocus Pocus.

Well opinions vary and so do research conclusions. White cats with blue colored eyes are deaf and more than 50percent odd-eyed cats suffer from this problem. Some white kittens are born deaf.

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. 5 of the general cat population is white cats ie. Some people believe that white kittens with blue eyes dont hear whereas white.

Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes 60-80 are deaf. White color of the coat occurs in. Its my understanding that cats with only one blue eye are likely to be deaf in the ear nearest the blue eye but weve been unable to detect any problems with Toby.

So your sweetie may be half-hearing. 30-40 had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 had one blue eye and normal hearing. 20-40 have normal hearing.