Are cats and dogs color blind?

Cats and dogs are just like color-blind humans, seeing some colors but not all of them. For the bright daytime light, cells known as cones are needed. Humans have three kinds of cones, enabling them to see blue, red and green. read more

Ergo, cats are color-blind. Doubts about this conclusion arose some years later, however. Cats have cones as well as rod-type vision receptors in their retinas, and cones have long been associated with color vision in humans. read more

Cats. Cat vision differs quite a bit from ours. Using ourselves as a reference you could argue that they are color blind. More specifically they'd be red-green color blind, with a bit of green still coming through. They aren't dichromats as many thought, so they have receptors for all colors, they do respond better to blue-violet and green-yellow. read more