All Cats With Blue Eyes Blind

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All cats with blue eyes blind. There is also the. Kittens normally are born with blue eyes and their actual eye color does not become apparent until they are several weeks old. 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. She has a tabby ish face with a half m and stripes on her cheeks.

This gene suppresses the expression of the coat and eye colour. Blue eyed cats are not limited to these breeds though. If you check with local animal shelters you may find just the jewel you are looking for. Ragdolls are known for sparkling blue eyes but not all ragdolls have this color.

Cat breeds with blue eyes include the siamese balinese himalayan persian birman and javanese. Blue eyed white cats are quite often deaf as the w gene also affects the development of the. Her back feet are white and her thighs are brown striped and. Blue eyed white cats are not more prone to blindness either hereditary or acquired than other cats.

Although they may be at a greater risk for congenital deafness there s no history of more cases of blindness than any other cats. Researchers found that only 17 to 22 percent of white cats with non blue eyes are born deaf. 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.

Your friends may be confusing blindness with deafness. Some people think that white cats with blue eyes go blind more often than other cats but that s simply not true. By the time. 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.

Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats and even more so if one or both irises are blue in color.