Does your dog have red ,orange, or green toys?
By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
April 9, 2013 10:43am CST
Many dog owners buy bright colored toys for their dog,not knowing that dogs do not see red, orange or green. Red appears as brown or gray to your dog. A green ball may be hard for your dog to distinguish because it looks gray and might blend in with the grass.
One of the best colors for your dog to see is blue. He can see the whole blue range from Violet to dark blue. Purple and brown are also easily viewed by your dog. However a dog can see better in the dark because his eyes are bigger and gather more light. However his night vision comes at the price of not distinguishing details as well as humans.
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@Octav1 (1419)
• Romania
15 Apr 13
Our dog has toys from all colors. Her favorite kind of toys are those small balls that can jump very high. It doesn't matter what color they are, she's completely mad about them. I don't know how she knows which is the ball she wants to play at a time, but she knows exactly what she wants. She dig inside the toy box until she finds what she wants.
I don't know how anybody can tell if a dog sees the colors different from humans. How do you think they can?
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
15 Apr 13
A great many things in this world are People orientated rather than Pet orientated. Here is a story to demonstrate this truism.
A man wanted to know which loved him the most- his wife or his dog, so he locked them both in the trunk of his car for 15 minutes.
When he opened the truck the dog jumped out and was all over him, licking his face, and wagging his tail like crazy.
His wife however, grabbed the tire iron as she climbed out of the trunk and tried to kill him with it.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
14 Apr 13
My dogs toys are all the colour of dirt mixed with slobber.
I buy blue toys when I can but they are not readily available which I think is just stupid. If the dog toy manufacturers were dinkum, they'd make more blue dog toys.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
9 Apr 13
I always wonder how they test for this. We tested our Llamas and they can see many ddifferent colors, it's so bad that we have to give them different colored bowls, we label them so we remember who gets what. With dogs, they have do many other sensitive senses, that I wonder how they shut these down to make sure it's only their sight that is working. Their hearing and smelling are so keen it's not easy to shut these down. But then again maybe I don't want to know.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
10 Apr 13
I'm wondering how you tested your Lamas on the colors they can see? And why do you have to give them different colored bowls? (I'm a curious old farmer who has never farmed lamas!) Dogs are such wonderful creatures! Imagine having a nose 1000 times better than a human!
@savypat (20216)
• United States
10 Apr 13
We did several tests, one was with brand new dishes of different colors, that was the only thing differeent about them, the llamas each pick a pan the same color as their old pan. We had watched a video on this but didn't believe until we tried it our selves. We started with different colors because that is the way we fed
our doge, each had his own colored bowl, this was for our benefit, not the dog's they knew which bowl was theirs from the smell.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
15 Apr 13
Thanks for that pat, I find your posts very colorful and quite enlightening!
A better sense of smell would at times, be preferable to sight, especially in the dark, or when there were several objects of the same color, shape, and size, that you needed to tell apart.
@MindSalad (77)
• India
10 Apr 13
I have green and orange toys but my dog rarely plays with them. They are just lying somewhere in the corner of the house. Thanks for the post. I shall buy either blue, black or brown toys henceforth.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
15 Apr 13
Well its not that the dog doesn't like green, red and orange colored toys, They all look rather gray to the dog. If the dog is going to like the toy it won't matter what color the toy is. Its just that the red, orange and green toys sell better because the dog owners like those bright colors.
@Sinality (9)
• United States
16 Apr 13
Well I have a boston terrier, 6 years old. One of his favorite toys happens to be a lime green tennis ball and a white and green rope. There is a multi-colored rope he also likes, but if I set both ropes next to each other and tell him to get his toy, he will always choose the white and green one.
