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Similarities Between Evil Kenevil and Our Dog
updated: Mar 24, 2012, 9:45 AM
By David Powdrell
Here's the deal: Have you ever wondered what the world looks like from the eyes of your pet? I haven't spent a lot time pondering this subject until just recently when our Basset Hound made a flying leap for a barbeque chicken pizza sitting on the kitchen counter.
Barnaby's eyes are 7.25 inches above ground level. From his perspective, virtually everything towers over him.
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I slithered to the ground to see what the pizza box looked like from his perspective. It was what Evil Kenevil must have thought just before leaping the Grand Canyon on his rocket ship motorcycle. Fat chance. But what the heck, if he lands it, he scores big.
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And what about the notion that dogs see in black and white only? Turns out they see in colors but not what we see. Jay Neitz from UCSB did some tests on the color vision of dogs. Different panels of colored palates were shown to dogs. Two palates were the same color. The third was a different color. Every time the dog pressed the panel with a different color, he got a treat that the computer plopped into a cup below that panel.
Results: Dogs see in color but in fewer colors. Whereas we see the rainbow as violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, dogs see dark blue, gray, light yellow, dark yellow and very dark gray, according to Neitz's study. In other words, dogs see the world as basically yellow, blue and gray.
I attached my camera to Barnaby's head, got a few shots of what his world might look like of the pizza delivery man, the pizza box on the kitchen counter and eating his Kibbles, and then used Photoshop to tweak the images to dog colors.
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Evil didn't get the pizza, but caught a good glimpse of the bottom of the blue box at the apex of his leap.
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