Ocd In Dogs

[redangel]

Am I right in saying that dogs cannot see color? It is a belief I was told once and I never checked if it was an old wives tale. Can someone please explain why my Rosie is facinated with hot pink objects...she collects them like a bowerbird collects blue. She always takes anything that color, pencils, clothing, socks (my daughter fav pair).. I purchased a hot pink tennis ball and threw it in the doggie toy box, yes she found it and it is her newest thing to her bower!

Anyone else have a dog that collects specific things? I cant explain it.

[spottychick]

Dogs can see colour but are 'colour blind' because their vision of colours is more limited than humans.

Wikianswers reckons that dogs have two different color receptors in their eyes and therefore are dichromats. One color receptor peaks at the blue-violet range, the other at the yellow-green range. Dogs are green-blind which is one form of red-green color blindness also called deuteranopia. Orange, yellow and green look all the same to a dog and BLUE- GREEN is seen as WHITE.

See also - http://www.vetinfo.com/dogsee.html

[spottychick]

PS Your title confused me - by 'OCD' did you mean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?? Are you saying you think your dog has that?

[noisymina]

You did it by calling her Rosie ....Rosemary....PINK flowers.

And your name is wrong now. I has to be PINKangel.