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Do Dogs See Colors?

  • December 10, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Contrary to myth, dogs don’t see in black and white. They see some colors, but not as many as we do. Their vision is like red-green colorblindness in humans, because their eyes have only two different kinds of cones, the cells that detect color, while people have three.

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