{"id":2661,"date":"2020-09-28T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fearfree.com\/2020\/09\/color-me-fear-free\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:00:16","slug":"color-me-fear-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fearfree.com\/2020\/09\/color-me-fear-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Me Fear Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heather E. Lewis<\/strong>The way people interpret color is tied strongly to human culture and language. For example, feeling blue means feeling sad, and seeing red means feeling angry, at least in Western, English-speaking cultures.\u00a0 But how do animals see and respond to color? The answers are few, as there is little research in this field of study. We can<\/strong> say that dogs and cats see a narrower range of colors than we do. This is because they have traded color vision, biologically speaking, for superior vision at night. Indeed, dogs and cats see much better at night than people do.<\/p>\n

Cats have trichromatic vision, just like humans, but they do not see the red end of the human visible spectrum. Dogs have dichromatic vision, which means they do not see anything in the orange and red range in the human visible spectrum. Both species see slightly into the ultraviolet range. This is fascinating as it means that any material that has phosphorous in it, or a whitening or brightening agent derived from phosphorous, will fluoresce slightly under their vision. For example, a piece of paper is a glowing white object to a cat.<\/p>\n

Fear Free color palettes have three objectives relating to the little we do know about animal preferences for color and stress reduction for people and animals alike.<\/p>\n