Why are blue-eyed, and odd-eyed white cats, sometimes deaf?
(Answer) White is not a cat color. Cat colors are red and black. When accompanied by the delute gene, they are cream and blue. White is the abstance of color on a cat, and so are blue eyes, the abstance of color in the cat eyes. When an egg is fertilized in the womb of the mama cat, each kitten becomes one of four colors, red, black, cream or blue. Depending on what genes were given to it by mama and papa. Female kittens can be both colors sometimes, red and black, or cream and blue. While still in the womb, the color cells start the coloring process at the unbilical cord and start moving upward. There are a couple of genes that sometimes stop this process of coloring. They are called the White Gene, and the Spotting Gene. The Spotting Gene can stop the process at many different places on the kitten. Giving us all the different variations of the bi-color, and tri-color cats. But always, no matter how much white, and how much color a bi-color, or tri-color cat has. The white part is on
