A Michael Broad Blog
People ask why white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Not all of these cats are deaf (see part 2 of this short article). Coat color and an aspect of the cat’s personality or another aspect of anatomy can be linked if the gene that dictates the cat’s colour and a gene which affects …
This is the happy ending story about a 9-year-old white cat named Otitis and a woman named Molly who suffers from severe anxiety who saved his life. Otitis is an earless white cat belonging to Molly Lichtenwalner. Molly found him through PetFinder at the Feline Rescue Association of Baltimore. Poor Otitis suffered from cysts …
When these twin cats, Iriss and Abyss, sit together as they often do and look into the camera lens, you won’t see a more beautiful vision of cat eyes anywhere in the world. They are odd-eyed cats – more technically described as having heterochromatic eyes. White cats not uncommonly have an eye conditon called …
This page sets out the causes of hearing loss in cats. In the second half of the page I make a note about deafness due to developmental defects. Some cat owners may not be initially aware that their cat is deaf or deaf in one ear and believe that their cat has gone deaf …
Hypersensitivity to vibrations by deaf cats needs exploring more. Mel made this very interesting comment on this page: This is my first post to any kind of board like this. I am researching to find a reason for what happened to my cat today. She is 17 and very healthy other than for awhile …
This is an interesting Helmi Flick studio photograph of two white cats. The central cat, a male named “Monk”, does not have blue eyes. He might not be deaf. He has a 19% chance of being deaf. Up to 85% of white cats are deaf in both ears if both eyes are blue. The …
