Are cats and dogs really colorblind?
- Posted by Daniel Flück on February 28th, 2006 filed in Animals
As Cecil Adams observes in The Straight Dope cats and dogs are not completely colorblind but one can compare their vision with the vision of human being suffering from Deuteranope. The same is reported from Earth & Sky and as I read through my conclusion is: They are just not interested in colors. In their lifes there are much more important things to do then to distinguish different shades of color. Maybe it’s the same for us colorblind: Just more important things to do than spotting red flowers in a green field or learning that the sky is blue even if it is gray all day long these days. I would say we can concentrate much better on our work and don’t get abstracted by seeing our world full of colors. We get the work done!
April 6th, 2006 at 22:05
I think dogs arent really color blind.
I think they could see some colors but not all.
April 7th, 2006 at 13:10
Of course we can’t really say if dogs are suffering from some kind of color blindness or not, because they can’t tell us. But as some researches show are dogs showing the same reactions on colors like somebody suffering from Deuteranopia.
Colorblind doesn’t mean to see no colors at all, but to have problems distinguish some colors. And as for dogs this is in the red-green color spectrum.
May 2nd, 2006 at 0:12
dogs are so not colorblind…my dog loves the color red..a lot. he always has this one sqeaky ball that he favors. im just doing researsh for my science project..dont mind me….
September 26th, 2006 at 3:59
i dont think they are colorblind because they can see you and how could they see you if they are colorblind explain that they might see your movements but i doubt it
October 18th, 2006 at 23:56
i really agree with you cause im suspose to do a report tht dogs ae color blind and i dont really believe tha they are because it was never proven you cant like ask a dog if theyre color blind and if you can id really like to know
October 21st, 2006 at 16:28
i dont think dogs and cats are color blind
January 12th, 2007 at 17:24
I am a 7th Grader and I am currently doing my science fair project on if dogs are really color blind.
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July 27th, 2007 at 23:29
Dogs and Cats are not colorblind. They have a high detail of color. To a dog, the color of the grass is a high neon green. The reason why they have a high sense of color is because their eyes have ‘Optoelectronic senders’ in their eyes to see at night. At night the colors need to be on a higher tensity to be seen.
August 6th, 2007 at 18:23
I know that my cat is colorblind. I have this red lazer that my cats love to play with and try to catch, but one of my cats acts like he cant see it. Ill put it right in front of him, and all he doesnt see anything.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:43
When my one cat always picks out the red toys in particular to play with, it makes me wonder whether cats, in general, have a colour preference. My other cats don’t really seem to care about what colour the toys are, only that they are fun!
December 11th, 2007 at 16:09
i’ve ALWAYS wondered if dog r colored blinded some may b some may not i dont care about the cats I HATE CATS i dont care if they can see color or not as long as they dont get anywhere near me or my baby boy.
March 12th, 2008 at 17:55
I’ve been doing resarch and I found dogs can see yellow,blue,tan,brown,and purple,so they CAN see color.