Do you want to get a cat of white color, but somewhere heard that all of them are deafs? Perhaps, it is only a prejudice, but this information can quite be reliable. Whether really all white cats – deafs and if yes, that is why?
As someone from great spoke, "even the least cat – is beautiful". Someone likes fluffy big guys cats, and someone is crazy about statuetochno-graceful kitties which skin is not covered with wool. But practically all who love cats agree that snow-white color cats with blue eyes – some of the most beautiful.
Unfortunately, there is a myth that white cats hear nothing. People consider that if at a cat a beautiful white hair and light bottomless eyes, then practically with absolute probability this cat – the deaf. Whether so it actually?
Why many consider that white cats are deafs?
The fact is that at snow-white cats and cats in a genotype the epistatichesky gene of W is prepotent. It often confuse with albinism, but actually it not the same at all. Existence of this gene explains the fact that 2 of 10 white cats actually hear nothing. But this gene can with high degree of probability appear also in a genotype of red cats, and black, and even striped, and they likewise can be deafs. Moreover, this gene is transferred from parents to posterity so some of kittens in such dung can be deafs irrespective of color of their hair. And albinism which is not connected with deafness at all is responsible for white color of wool after all.
How to understand what the white cat does not hear?
If you after all want to get to yourself a kitten of white color, but are not ready to provide care to not hearing animal, then you need to define whether the cat is the deaf, still before you take it in the house. As a rule, the deaf kitten differs from the brothers and sisters in the fact that the sounds made by him are louder, than at the others, he does not hear himself. More adult cat who has problems with hearing does not react to such sounds lovely to cat's heart as rustling of the forage which is filled in a bowl or a sound of opening of a door of the fridge. Especially has to guard you if the cat is frightened when you approach her from a back. Hearing of an ordinary cat very thin, and she has to hear your steps. If in your house there lives not hearing cat or a cat, then always watch the step and ask about it your guests. Unfortunately, deaf cats are more subject to injuries, than usual, one of feelings at them is atrophied and they can not react to danger in due time. Such cats and cats nevertheless need slightly more attention, than usual, and for the rest it is the same darlings, playful and gentle pets, as well as hearing.