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The following breeds have been reported to suffer from congenital/inherited deafness, the hereditary nature of the deafness has not been confirmed in all the breeds. 
It is recommended that both father and mother should have a hearing test and be certified with
normal hearing in each ear prior to being bred for the first time.

Dogs

Akita
American bulldog
American eskimo
American hairless terrier
American Staffordshire terrier
American-Canadian shepherd
Anatolian shepherd
Australian cattle dog
Australian heeler
Australian shepherd
Beagle
Belgian sheepdog (Groenendael)
Belgian tervuren
Bichon frise
Border collie (merle coloured)
Borzoi
Boston terrier
Boxer
Brittany spaniel
Bull terrier
Bulldog
Canaan dog
Cardigan Welsh corgi
Catahoula leopard dog
Catalan shepherd
Cavalier King Charles spaniel
Chihuahua
Chinese crested
Chow chow
Cocker spaniel
Collie
Coton de Tulear
Dalmatian
Dachshund (dappled)
Doberman pinscher
Dogo Argentino
English bulldog
English cocker spaniel
English setter
Foxhound
Fox terrier
French bulldog
German shepherd dog
German shorthaired pointer
Great Dane
Great Pyrenees
Greyhound
Havanese
Ibizzan hound
Icelandic sheepdog
Italian greyhound
Jack/ Parson Russell terrier
Japanese chin
Kuvasz
Labrador retriever
Lowchen
Maltese 
Miniature pinscher
Miniature poodle
Mongrel
Newfoundland Landseer
Norwegian dunkerhound
Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
Old English sheepdog
Papillon
Perro de Carea Leones
Pitbull terrier
Pointer/ English pointer
Presa Canario
Puli
Rat terrier
Rhodesian ridgeback
Rottweiler
Saint Bernard
Samoyed
Schnauzer
Scottish terrier
Sealyham terrier
Shetland sheepdog
Shih Tzu
Shropshire terrier
Siberian husky
Soft-coated Wheaten terrier
Springer spaniel
Sussex spaniel
Tibetan terrier
Toy fox terrier
Toy poodle
Walker American foxhound
West Highland white terrier
Whippet
Yorkshire terrier

Cats

American shorthair
American wirehair
Balinese
British shorthair
Cornish rex
Devon rex
European white
Exotic shorthair
Foreign white
Highlander
Maine coon
Manx
Norwegian forest
Oriental shorthair
Persian
Ragdoll
Scottish fold
Siberian
Turkish angora
Turkish van
White

In each case deafness if most likely if there is either white fur, blue eyes or both.

This data is from Strain GM (1996) Aetiology, prevalence and diagnosis of deafness in dogs and cats British Veterinary Journal 152 17-36 and Strain GM (2011) Deafness in Dogs and Cats. CAB International; Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.

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