Not all white cats are deaf, but they are more likely to be those that carry the W gene, especially those with blue eyes or one eye of each color. Meet here the reasons! To understand why there is a high number of deaf white cats must go back to the genetics of these kittens.
Not all white cats with blue eyes are deaf the white coat color occurs in cats of three ways: When albino (with blue eyes or red CA- gen, gen c- eyes, for example). When it has the white spot gene (gene S). In these cases, cats can be with white spots, or white with a splash of color.
When it is all white because of the dominant gene W, which masks any other color. Kitten’s second types are often born with a spot of color on the head, often it disappears in adulthood. Such spots show a lower propensity cat to suffer deafness.
The cats are more prone to deafness are the third types: cats with the dominant gene W camouflaging its true color.
The white coat is the only one that allows cats have all possible eye colors: blue, yellow, green, red and even one of each color (mismatched eyes).Cats with mismatched eyes can suffer deafness by the side of the blue eye
The famous layer surrounding the cat's eye and a devilish look in the photo is the tapetum lucidum, and consists of stem cells and melanocytes (pigment cells). Depending on this cell type coloring eye along with other like cells of the retina, the cat's eyes have one color or another.
The blue eyes of cats are often associated with this lack of tapetum lucidum pigmented; sometimes this occurs in only one of the two eyes (mismatched eyes).
While cats tend to have hearing loss are those of W dominant gene that has blue eyes (or one of each color, being the ear on the side of the blue eye deaf), it is not always the case since other cells act in the process of coat color and eye.
The ratio corresponds to the gene, and we will explain in a "living at home", especially based on this article.
The cells Stem cells divide and become other cells, including those that determine the color you are related to deafness, are those mother finally divided into cells having a function. This division's appear melanoblasts, which migrate to the hair follicles and become melanocytes to give color to coat.
In the case of cats with dominant gene W; melanoblasts are unable to reach all the skin, so the coat is a white supplement.
For the eyes, as other cells acting in color, blue may be resulting from deficient or not melanoblasts. Even this can be given only in one eye, which is why this is a sign that the ear is deaf on that side.
And melanoblasts not only act on the hair color and eye but also end up forming part of the ear cat. Melanocytes are placed in a part of the ear responsible for creating an electrical potential that receives auditory cells. Without melanocytes, the cat did not hear, which in this case just a poor melanoblasts deafness to the Pussycat.
As we have seen, with the characteristics of the cat is not enough. Kato is white with two blue eyes and hears perfectly. Where appropriate, the colored particles show that their target is due to the s gene, not the dominant gene W. Therefore, it is important to make sure that the cat is deaf. Cats respond to stimuli not only the sense of hearing, which can "fool" easily. In this article give some home tips that can serve to make a first analysis.
And if that doubt that white cat is deaf, the most common test is to determine the BAER test, which must be done by a veterinarian with specific machinery.
White cats, typologies
Not all white cats with blue eyes are deaf the white coat color occurs in cats of three ways: When albino (with blue eyes or red CA- gen, gen c- eyes, for example). When it has the white spot gene (gene S). In these cases, cats can be with white spots, or white with a splash of color.
When it is all white because of the dominant gene W, which masks any other color. Kitten’s second types are often born with a spot of color on the head, often it disappears in adulthood. Such spots show a lower propensity cat to suffer deafness.
The cats are more prone to deafness are the third types: cats with the dominant gene W camouflaging its true color.
The color of the eyes of cats and deafness
The white coat is the only one that allows cats have all possible eye colors: blue, yellow, green, red and even one of each color (mismatched eyes).Cats with mismatched eyes can suffer deafness by the side of the blue eye
The famous layer surrounding the cat's eye and a devilish look in the photo is the tapetum lucidum, and consists of stem cells and melanocytes (pigment cells). Depending on this cell type coloring eye along with other like cells of the retina, the cat's eyes have one color or another.
The blue eyes of cats are often associated with this lack of tapetum lucidum pigmented; sometimes this occurs in only one of the two eyes (mismatched eyes).
While cats tend to have hearing loss are those of W dominant gene that has blue eyes (or one of each color, being the ear on the side of the blue eye deaf), it is not always the case since other cells act in the process of coat color and eye.
What does the ear with the color of the cat and his eyes?
The ratio corresponds to the gene, and we will explain in a "living at home", especially based on this article.
The cells Stem cells divide and become other cells, including those that determine the color you are related to deafness, are those mother finally divided into cells having a function. This division's appear melanoblasts, which migrate to the hair follicles and become melanocytes to give color to coat.
In the case of cats with dominant gene W; melanoblasts are unable to reach all the skin, so the coat is a white supplement.
For the eyes, as other cells acting in color, blue may be resulting from deficient or not melanoblasts. Even this can be given only in one eye, which is why this is a sign that the ear is deaf on that side.
And melanoblasts not only act on the hair color and eye but also end up forming part of the ear cat. Melanocytes are placed in a part of the ear responsible for creating an electrical potential that receives auditory cells. Without melanocytes, the cat did not hear, which in this case just a poor melanoblasts deafness to the Pussycat.
How to detect if a cat is deaf?
As we have seen, with the characteristics of the cat is not enough. Kato is white with two blue eyes and hears perfectly. Where appropriate, the colored particles show that their target is due to the s gene, not the dominant gene W. Therefore, it is important to make sure that the cat is deaf. Cats respond to stimuli not only the sense of hearing, which can "fool" easily. In this article give some home tips that can serve to make a first analysis.
And if that doubt that white cat is deaf, the most common test is to determine the BAER test, which must be done by a veterinarian with specific machinery.