What colors do dogs see?

Neitz confirmed that dogs actually do see color, but many fewer colors than normal humans do. Instead of seeing the rainbow as violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow, orange and red, dogs would see it as dark blue, light blue, gray, light yellow, darker yellow (sort of brown), and very dark gray. read more

“Dog color vision is quite similar to a person who has red-green color blindness,” explains Reinstein. “Dogs see shades of blue, yellow and green, which when combined, can be perceived as grayish brown, dark yellow, light yellow, grayish yellow, light blue and dark blue. read more

Interestingly, dogs see colors the way people with red-green color blindness see colors, explains Gregory Acland, a professor of medical genetics at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, N.Y. This rare disorder usually occurs in males and accounts for about 4 percent of the population. read more

Dogs see colors, but not the same way humans do. People can see variations of violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Dogs can only see blue, violet, yellow and some shades of gray. read more