Anyone a member on Preloved?

[Ela]

it is all down to genes

Something like that. Allegedly there is an established link between the white coat color, blue eyes and deafness. The tapetum lucidum is generated from the same stem cells as melanocytes .The blue eyes in a piebald or epistatic white cat indicates a lack of tapetum. Deafness is caused by an absence of a cell layer in the inner ear that originates from the same stem cells as well.  There clear as mud.

[Desley (booktigger)]

it is all down to genes whether a pure white will be deaf - there are more than one gene that means a cat will be pure white, and I think only one of the genes causes deafness.

[Ela]

Wonder what its eye colour is? Blue? Therefore deaf; this may be why they are "getting rid".

It is a fallacy that all blue white cats are deaf. Over the years I have taken in numerous white cats with blue eyes, some have been deaf but many haven’t. I have also taken in many cats with one blue eye and one brown. Some have been deaf on the blue eye side, again others haven’t.

[Hippykitty]

Sounds like it's an entire tom.
Wonder what its eye colour is? Blue? Therefore deaf; this may be why they are "getting rid". 

[LeighK]

Entirely white or entirely male

Cheers

Leigh

[forever_missing_my_boys(Lisa)]

awwwww i love white cats

im not a member no

[JackSpratt]

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