Are dogs really colour blind?
By randomgrafix
@randomgrafix (110)
Trinidad And Tobago
February 13, 2007 10:18am CST
Are they? really?
Anyone has any clinical proof of that?
I don't know... my Lab seems to know the difference between her red pillow and her blue pillow when I ask her to bring it.
Maybe it's the shade or the scent.
Anyone has any insight?
2 responses
@ButtrflyDreams (1139)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Dogs are not color blind. I have 4 dogs & all of them have prefrences between colors. My one dog prefers blues/purples & one likes reds/yellows & my other 2 like greens. I know this because I buy all different colors of toys & those are the colors they ALWAYS go for.
@randomgrafix (110)
• Trinidad And Tobago
13 Feb 07
Yes mine do that too but I wonder if they just go for the one they first chose when you offered it to them because it has their scent the strongest on it. hmmmmm pondering pondering.
@ButtrflyDreams (1139)
• United States
14 Feb 07
No...That wouldn't be the case because they do this with brand new toys as well that don't have their scent on them yet.
@radukugalati (173)
• Romania
13 Feb 07
I got proog that dogs aren't colour blind.I have made an test with my Armstaff.I am not so good at english but I will try to explain you the better I can.It might sound wierd.My dog doesn't like red colour.When I bought a red schoolbag my dog was chewing it.Then I bought a blue schoolbag and the dog didn't chew anything.I have bring back the red bag and he was just chewing it again.The bags were the same...with no smell and bought from the same place.Hope this helps you.
@randomgrafix (110)
• Trinidad And Tobago
14 Feb 07
Wow interesting... I think I'll have to try an experiment like those to test this.
I'm issueing a challenge to everyone to try testing their dog on the use of colour and report the findings here.
I'll start testing mine today.
