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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Cats and Music
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 21:35:13 EST
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> Not completely so.  Deafness is associated with the gene that produces
> white fur, but not with albinism (which leads to white fur+blue eyes, just
> as in humans).  In other words, deafness is more common in white cats but
> blue-eyed white cats are not always deaf.  (Aside:  albinism is recessive,
> but white fur is (mostly?) dominant.  You figure it out.)
> 

	Albino cats have PINK eyes, just like albino rabbits, monkeys,
humans, etc.


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jcpatilla

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