Cats
e. blue eyes) and deafness - and since the eyes
and ears are close together, if that gene affects that area of the body, it is likely to affect both
sense organs (hence odd eyed whites may be deaf on the blue-eyed side).
Aries, a blue-eyed silver-tabby-and-white
Norwegian Forest Cat bred by Raquel Ortega
Cormenzana of MONTEGANCEDO*ES
(Madrid). Sometimes bicolour cats with white
faces have blue eyes. Aries has has perfect
hearing because the white does not extend to
the ears.
Congenital deafness can also be caused by a variety of hereditary factors, just as in humans.