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A TikTok video of a deaf rescue cat, Mij, running to her owner after realizing they arrived home, has gone viral. In the caption of the clip, the owner wrote, “Straight [up] for cuddles as soon ...
Smiley is 9 years old and has a myriad of health issues; she's deaf, has anemia, dehydration, possible thyroid issues, and possibly an ear infection.But that doesn't mean she doesn't deserve a ...
A completely deaf, solid white, blue-eyed cat This engraving depicts two cats on a wall, with a dog jumping and barking below them. The white-spotted cat hisses at the dog, the solid-white deaf cat dozes unaware of the barking. Congenital sensorineural deafness occurs commonly in domestic cats with a white coat.
The stray cat was ready to tussle. The footage shows the cat keeping one eye out for trouble. And boy did it find him. It appears that one of the kitty's fur-siblings was trying to get into it ...
White cats having one blue and one other-colored eye are called "odd-eyed" and may be deaf on the same side as the blue eye. [16] This is the result of the yellow iris pigmentation rising to the surface of only one eye, as blue eyes are normal at birth before the adult pigmentation has had a chance to express itself in the eye(s).
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...
Some strains of animals, such as white cats, have a tendency to congenital deafness. [1] Some known chemicals and elements can also affect deafness in animals. [2] Deafness can occur in almost any breed of cat or dog. This includes both pure-breed and mixed-breed animals, although there may be more prevalence in some specific breeds. [3]
In a video shared by ABC News, anchor David Muir explained that no one at the shelter expected 3-year-old Retriever-mix Reille and 6-year-old Boone, a deaf Basset Hound, to be as close as they've ...