The Dog Eye

Why The Dog Eye?

• The dog eye is very interesting because many people are unsure if a dog is color blind or not.
• Dogs see things very different from humans
• Dogs can see lengths much different from humans.

Dog eye vs Human eye

• Dogs can only see up to 20ft away, while we can see up to 80ft away.
• Dogs can see a total visual field of 240 degrees, while humans can only see a visual field of 200 degrees.
• dogs see colour much differently than us, if we see orange, they may see yellow.

Is a Dog Colour Blind?

• no, not completely.
• the dog eye can see colours, but much more faintly than a normal human eye can.
• dogs cannot see as much colour because the dog eye is build with many rods and few cones.

This is the color perception of a Human and a Dog. Dogs are not completely color blind, but many colors are different.

Final question:

answer choices

• a) there is no difference.
• b) there is not much difference, dogs cannot see as far and cannot see as much colour as human
• c) a dog is natruallycolour blind and a human is not.
• d) none of the above.