Good link, I would trust anything Lorraine Shelton has to say!

Sorry to burst your bubble Terry Leashedforlife, but there is no real link between the sex of deaf cats. It strikes male or females equally according to everything I've ever read. But there is a correlation between eye colour and deafness, as Lorraine explains in that article.

I currently have a litter of moggies which includes three white kittens - one male is blue-eyed and deaf. Mum is not deaf, neither were her siblings and I have enough background to know my one male is the first deaf white in that line. The father of the kittens was a high-white black & white certainly with two S genes, which does make me wonder if a combination of S and dominant white W might be a factor.

But anyway I will be taking DNA swabs of these kittens before they go, to contribute to a study being done by a geneticist in the USA.

Oddly enough (pun intended) odd-eyed cats are often deaf on the blue-eyed side, but having read up an awful lot on deaf white cats since Squid was born, I've heard of some which were totally deaf despite the odd-eyes and some which were deaf on the yellow-eyed side. There are also quite a lot of cats out there with yellow eyes and are also deaf: having blue eyes isn't always a marker.

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