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Deafness can occur in white cats with yellow, green or blue irises, although it is mostly likely in white cats with blue irises. [4] In white cats with one blue eye and one eye of a different color (odd-eyed cats), deafness is more likely to affect the ear on the blue-eyed side. [1] Approximately 50% of white cats have one or two blue eyes. [5]
But most blind cats actually manage pretty well on their other senses. Scent, hearing, and of course touch are among cat’s most powerful senses anyway. Still, having a blind cat means you do get ...
If your cat is blind you might worry that their quality of life will change. Vision is important to cats, but they do have strong senses of smell and their hearing is stronger than humans. Meaning ...
Rodri was a partially blind street cat that Mary Gomes Kopp and her husband, Alyssa’s stepfather, rescued in the Greek island of Crete, where they have a home. They care for about 60 stray cats ...
Cat senses are adaptations that allow cats to be highly efficient predators. Cats are good at detecting movement in low light, have an acute sense of hearing and smell, and their sense of touch is enhanced by long whiskers that protrude from their heads and bodies. These senses evolved to allow cats to hunt effectively at dawn and dusk.
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 ...
A sharp-eyed passerby helped rescue a cat in Massachusetts from a frigid fate. On the morning of Monday, Dec. 16, a person noticed that a feline — later identified as Tiki, a blind, 20-year-old ...
A blind mole-rat Visual perception in animals plays an important role in the animal kingdom, most importantly for the identification of food sources and avoidance of predators. For this reason, blindness in animals is a unique topic of study.