All Cats With Blue Eyes Blind

Which means for example you can have a genetically black cat or red but if he carries the w gene the colour will be masked.

All cats with blue eyes blind. Some people think that white cats with blue eyes go blind more often than other cats but that s simply not true. Her torso is brown at the center but white more up front including her front paws. This gene suppresses the expression of the coat and eye colour. If you are looking for a blue eyed beauty look for cat breeds that commonly have blue eyes including siamese persian snowshoe ragdoll tonkinese balinese javanese turkish van himalayan and ojos azules.

Here the situation is completely different. By the time. I know that siamese aren t blind but i hear that all other cats that aren t siamese are either blind or deaf. Kittens normally are born with blue eyes and their actual eye color does not become apparent until they are several weeks old.

Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color. Her back feet are white and her thighs are brown striped and. If you check with local animal shelters you may find just the jewel you are looking for. She has a tabby ish face with a half m and stripes on her cheeks.

Blue eyed white cats are quite often deaf as the w gene also affects the development of the. 1 dominant white epistatic white cats the gene responsible for blue eyed white cats is symbolised by the letter w it is dominant and therefore only one copy is required for the trait to be expressed. Blue eyed cats are not limited to these breeds though. Blue eyed white cats are not more prone to blindness either hereditary or acquired than other cats.

One breed which is neither white nor blue eyed is the abyssinian and that particular breed is more prone to blindness. My cat has blue eyes but she s a domestic s h with a weird coloring. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non blue eyes are born deaf. Although they may be at a greater risk for congenital deafness there s no history of more cases of blindness than any other cats.

Ragdolls are known for sparkling blue eyes but not all ragdolls have this color.