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I just adopted a full black cat with blue eyes. I am not sure if it's rare to have an full black cat with blue eyes. any suggestions?
I thought only blue-eyed white cats were deaf?Just out of curiosity is your cat deaf?
Associative deafness in white cats is signaled by blue eye colour if and when it's owed to a lack of tapetum lucidum in the eyes (since it's formed from the same stem cells as melanocytes). The actual cause of deafness in these cases is an absence of the cellular membrane in the inner ear, which is likewise composed of those same stem cells.Well, it's a unusual combination of genes that make some white cats that way, only pure white cats carry the deafness gene. So it does kinda makes you wonder if an unusual combination like all black with blue eyes carries something(?).Now I'm intrigued!