{"id":249,"date":"2021-02-26T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happybostons.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2021-05-24T00:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:40:56","slug":"are-boston-terriers-color-blind-10-cool-dog-eye-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybostons.com\/are-boston-terriers-color-blind-10-cool-dog-eye-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Boston Terriers Color Blind? 10 Cool Dog Eye Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It never occurred to me to ask if dogs are color blind. A recent conversation sent me into research mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boston Terriers, like all dogs, are red-green colorblind but are not limited to seeing only in black and white. Their rod-dominant eyes only have two types of cones, dichromatic, allowing them to distinguish yellows and blues. Reds and blues are seen as shades of yellow and grey. Dog vision is also less detailed than human vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a friend ask if Boston Terriers are color blind. Oh no, is there something weird about the eyes of Boston Terriers? Here\u2019s what I found out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boston Terriers are no more or less color blind than other dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was long thought that dogs of all varieties were color blind. However, in 2013, a group of Russian scientists found<\/a> that they were more likely to recognize a piece of paper by its color rather than its brightness in a small test group of eight dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Their findings suggest that dogs can see color, although not the same as humans see color. To understand this, we must look at the eye itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Research has shown that dogs are not color-blind, but instead, they are visual spectrum challenged. This difference is similar to humans who are red-green color blind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This means that they can see yellows and blues but cannot perceive other colors and instead see shades of grade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example of the spectrum difference from Andr\u00e1s P\u00e9ter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n