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From: MSN Nicknamejackiendaisy  (Original Message)Sent: 8/25/2005 6:50 PM
Can dogs see colors?
Can dogs see colors?

No.

Man's best friend is colorblind, but, fortunately, his survival does not depend upon the ability to see colors. His keen sense of smell compensates for his inability to see colors, and enables him to differentiate between things.

Extensive scientific testing on dogs supports the conclusion that they live in a colorless world. The testing done primarily focussed on the dogs' responses to colors for food. Dogs could not tell the difference between one color, a signal for food, and other colors, that were not for food. Similar tests conducted on cats produced similar results, which led scientists to conclude that they, too, are colorblind and live in a gray world.

The inability of most animals to see colors, from an evolutionary standpoint, is quite simple to understand. Many colorblind animals have dull-colored coats, hunt for food in the dark of night, or graze in the dim twilight hours. Their other senses have developed to the point where the lack of color vision in no way impairs them. For them, life in a colorless world is neither a handicap, nor a threat to their survival.

The only animals, other than man, scientists can conclusively say have color vision are monkeys and apes. Both can be trained to open a colored door, behind which is food, and man can be trained to open a refrigerator door of any color!



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From: MSN NicknameKimbaNHSent: 11/6/2005 2:49 PM
I'm not so sure about the findings, my old rottie use to watch the television, and loved the movie "homeward bound" , at the end of the movie a pizza delivery was made and the pizza went in the air...my Emily actually tried to catch it, I still have the teeth marks on my television set from it, lol.
 
They say dogs can't see the television because they see in two dimension and not just one..
 
My pommies who do have their own leashes, each a diffent color "know" which leash is for who...they are all the same size. maybe they are acting off of scent?
 
I'm not so sure I would agree with this.

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From: MSN NicknameΚίέssãSent: 12/3/2005 1:48 PM
I'm not sure I do either. Friends of mine took their whippets to show . The mother liked to wear yellow at dog shows (a fav suit) One of her whippets chewed through his leash and took off running.
He went into a very crowded area then decided he wanted to go back . I didn't want to chase him because then this becomes the best game in the world - Catch me if you can-

He proceeded to weave through people went to a lawn chair and layed down next to it. The woman in the chair was wearing yellow. He repeats this behavior now and again hence he is called Houdini looking for yellow.
I read dogs lack the red green cone in their eye giving them sight like a color blind person. This makes more sense to me.
Kayti

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From: MSN NicknameLilBrnDogSent: 12/26/2005 4:49 PM
I'm not so sure of those findings.  I had a pomeranian once who only liked to play with purple toys!  She had a purple mouse squeeky toy and unless we kept getting her purple ones...she wouldn't play with any other color!.

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From: MSN Nicknamegladys544Sent: 3/6/2007 6:14 AM
No, they can't see color.  They see everything in black and white.

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