Check Out This Video To Find Out The Truth About How Dogs See Color

Have you ever heard that dogs only see in black and white? That's a dirty lie. It turns out dogs can see some colors in the spectrum and Josh is here to tell you which ones and how. Watch this video and you will learn about how dogs see color!

Color is detected by specialized cells in the eye called cones. Humans have three types of cones. That allows us to see colors along the rainbow spectrum that we can see, but we can't see infrared or ultraviolet. Dog's, on the other hand, have two kinds of cones which mean that they can see color too! But, where we see our nice rainbow, dogs see dark, medium and light blue, light grey, light yellow, brownish yellow and dark brown.

So while dog's don't see all the colors we see and don't as vibrantly as we do, they still can see colors and anybody who says that dogs are colorblind is a liar! So the next time somebody tells you a dog is colorblindyou set them straight and tell them Josh sent you!

Dogs are less sensitive to variations in gray shades than humans are, as well as only about half as sensitive to changes in brightness. Dogs also tend to be nearsighted to varying degrees. While we can't ask dogs to read an eye chart or pick out colors, behavioral tests suggest that dogs see in shades of yellow and blue and lack the ability to see the range of colors from green to red.