Dog Vision vs. Human Vision

drawing of dog on pier, watching cloud shapes

People sometimes say that dogs can’t see color. That isn’t true! But, they don’t see as many colors as we do. While most humans can see a full rainbow of colors, dogs can only see two colors: blue and yellow.

Dog vision is not as sharp as ours is, either. Nor can they see differences in brightness as well as we can.

Here’s how some colorful clouds might look to humans:

colorful image of dog on pier, watching the clouds

 

And here’s how they might look to a dog:

dog on pier in Caribbean, using dog vision to view colors

Good thing they have such talented noses, isn’t it?

You can play with seeing your own photos in dog vision here.