Reality is not what you or your dog experiences - Page 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8nq3eRCSMQ

A link to a youtube video about how the human experience of reality and that of our dogs differ. 

 

Would that the last screen shot & caption were always true.   

 

This is good on describing the physical realities / differences between dogs and humans, but there is surely more to be said about "reality" when it comes to perceptions, attitudes, behaviour and interpretation ...

Dogs can smell tumors growing in the human body and can detect a seizure about to occur in their owners. They see hunter orange as another shade of brown and can't see clearly beyond a couple of hundred yards. Humans can't understand the dog's reality of scent and sound cues while dogs don't get our reliance on vision and sound cues. Dogs and humans are compatible primarily because we are both social pack animals with the ability to read and interpret tiny cues in facial expression and body language to aid in our social relationships.

What is "hunter orange" ? Is it like Dayglo Yellow ?  Absolutely agree about humans generally failing to understand scent and sound from a dog's viewpoint; who knows whether dogs "get" human reliance on vision ? I think some of my dogs have grasped that my vision (poor as it is !) was better than theirs in terms of distance, colour discrimination and static objects because they have appeared to "use" my ability to see further & clearer to their advantage, sometimes. I wish your last sentence was always true: dogs read what Judge Judy calls "body English" well; but many humans don't seem to have a clue about dogs' silent expression. I must say, it isn't always easy even for those of us who do normally know we can 'read' our dogs.

About a year ago i saw BBC documentary called  ''Inside the animal mind". It was really interesting.

What i found particular interesting was the answer to the question. Can dogs really tell time?

Here is a link of that episode. Hoop the link works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25926862

 

Hunter orange is a bright orange worn by hunters in the USA and required by some states to reduce hunter-cide ( hunters killing hunters ). Dogs and deer have diminished sensitivity to red and see orange as a shade of brown so they don't see any difference between hunter orange and brown leaves but human eyes and some other species can see hunter orange standing out against other duller colors. Dogs can tell time and there are several theories about how they do it but clearly they have an acute sense of time of day. Dogs have seriously great scent detection and may be able to tell time based on scent dilution .. ie the human leaves and the scent diminishes the same each day so when the shadows are long and the scent is about the same as yesterday it is time to sit at the door and wait for it to open. Pretty sure dogs use multiple cues to tell time. Light intensity, shadows, scent, sound ( they hear the car a lot further away or the TV is on and starts a show that comes on at the same time each day ) are but a few of the cues that dogs use to tell time.

WIKIPEDIA ... "Safety orange is the same color as blaze orange, the shade of orange (Color No. 12199) required by United States law (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade, Section 1150.3) to be on the tips of barrels of replica guns such as airsoft guns, and cap or toy guns. Hunter orange is also the color of hats, caps, and other safety wear required to be worn while hunting in most US states."

I wonder whether dogs can see Dayglow Yellow safety gear a bit
better ? If they can, then maybe the US could switch its legal
requirement to the British equivalent instead ? (No, I don't see
that happening ...)

How different is Hunter Orange from Gitmo Orange ?