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White Cats and Deafness

January 10, 2008 By Joi

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I learned something new today – which is always a cool prospect. Did you know that it’s not at all uncommon for white cats to be deaf? My mom had a large (very, very) sweetheart of a cat, Chin Chin, who happened to be deaf.I read recently that very many white cats are. Especially those who also have blue eyes. Chin Chin’s were green, however.There is an established link between the white coat color, blue eyes and deafness. Congenial deafness is extremely rare in non-white cats.

A few statistics:

5 percent of the general cat population is white. 15-40 percent of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes.

Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes, 60-80 percent are deaf; 20-40 percent have normal hearing; 30-40 percent had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 percent had one blue eye and normal hearing.

We had a gorgeous white cat named Whiskers who had perfect hearing. In fact, she was the best hunter I’ve ever witnessed – including myself at a mall sale. She had three kittens who looked a lot like her (Krystal, General, Snoopy, and Scoobie. General was hit by a car when he was fairly young – and had never been particularly sociable. He always seemed pretty scared…and a little ticked off. Looking back, I think he was probably deaf. At the time, we lived in the country with over 12 cats outside – so it’s possible that it would have gone unnoticed at the time.

Sadly, it makes sense now why he got hit on a road that saw very little traffic – and extremely slow, farmers-headed-into-town traffic, at that. I always wondered how the little guy managed to get hit when none of the others did.

I’m pretty sure I know now.

If I had been older and more “in the know”, I’d have checked him out and, then if he were in fact deaf – moved him inside…attitude and all! I can remember so many times trying so hard to baby talk him and win him over – every other cat in three counties would jump in my lap but General! (He must have thought I was a complete fool.)

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