Can dogs see T.V. like humans do?

Answer 1

Mine does, it likes "The man show" Yes it is, it's on channel 191 on Dish Satelite......

Answer 2

Lets just say when my dog first discovered the tv, he saw another dog and tried to attack it. He even chased it across the screen and looked behind the tv when it went off the screen to see if it was back there.

Answer 3

Training your dog will be a huge part of your interaction with him for the first few months. Learn here https://tr.im/ZN0Vs
This includes housetraining, leash training, obedience training, socialization, and problem solving. In addition to providing your dog with needed skills, this time will also be a great opportunity for you to bond with him. Take the time to really get to know your pet while training him and a loving relationship will easily develop.

Answer 4

They sure act like it. Have you ever watched a dog watch animal planet. Its hysterical. Or turn on other dogs barking or howling. Very fun to watch they react so I think they see something because they turn there head to the side like, whats this?

Answer 5

First of all dogs do not see in black and white...that is stupid


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How Dogs See The World
Every day many thousands of blind and visually impaired people rely on dogs to see for them. Negotiating obstacles, warning of steps, crossing busy roads – these peoples lives literally depend on their dogs. But just how well do their dogs see? We all know about the amazing canine sense of smell, hundreds of times more powerful than a humans, but what about their sight? Is that too more powerful? Well, yes and no. Dogs see the world in a totally different way to us humans. In some ways, they have much better eyesight than we do, in other ways it is not so good. While there is no way that we can get inside a dogs head and see the world as he does, we have a pretty good idea what dogs see because of what we know about the structure of a dog's eye.

Colour Vision

The retina is the part of the eye that does the actual seeing. It lines the back of the inside of the eyeball and detects the light that enters through the lens, which is at the front of the eyeball. The retina is made up of two types of light sensitive cells - rods and cones. Rods detect movement and, being sensitive to very small amount of light, are important for seeing in dark conditions. Cones ‘see’ colour and involved with detailed sight. Because the dogs’ retina has a very high proportion of rods, they see better in the dark and can detect movement more finely than we can. However, dogs have only about one tenth the human number of cones, and do not see colours as well as us. They are able to see shades of gray very well as it is rods which do the work in this case.


Dogs are a bit like a colour-blind human. People who can see the full range of colours are said to have trichromatic vision; that is they can distinguish three colours of light. In the way that all colours of paint can be mixed from the three primary colours, being trichromatic means we can ‘mix’ the light colours we see to get the full range of colours. Red/green colour blindness is the most common form of colour blindness in humans. Those affected are dichromatic and only perceive two light colours. Dogs are dichromatic and can distinguish only two colours: blue and yellow. They are unable to recognize green, orange or red.

Other cues, such as smell, brightness and position mean that dogs are little hampered by their poor colour vision. Guide dogs may not be able to distinguish between green and red traffic lights but they can be trained to look at the brightness and position of the lights. This, along with the movement and noise of traffic, tell the dog when it is safe to cross the street.

Go here for an idea of how dogs see colour compared to us... http://www.50connect.co.uk/index.asp?main=http%3A//www.50connect.co.uk/50c/articlepages/pets_index.asp%3Fsc%3Ddogs%26aID%3D4184

OK now to answer your question...Yes dogs can see TV however not the same way we do, they can detect movement much better... For example, my dog will only watch TV if it is an animal because seeing a persons face really has no interest, but a running or moving animal is much more easily detected and recognized..I have a movie called Predators and all my dogs and cats watch it for the entire 60 minutes because they can see the moving animals and they can see each frame of the picture too.

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Because of the large number of rods in the retina, dogs see moving objects much better than they see stationary objects. When we watch television, we see a continuous picture, although we know it is made up of a series of frames following each other in rapid succession. A dog can clearly distinguish each individual frame. The ability to see movement so well is useful to guide dogs. They can readily scan movements over a wide area and are very good at interpreting busy environments.

Answer 6

I always leave the T.V. on for my 3 dogs when I leave, it seems to relieve their separation anxiety.

Answer 7

Dogs don't see in 3D and they are color blind, plus they don't have the visual conception that you are using to put the images on the screen together. They are looking at the light differential.

Answer 8

We think they can
ours will get very upset if there is a lion on a nature show
he does watch it an will set up at times an just tilt his head
one way or the other

Answer 9

I dont think so because my dog, only looks at a tv when she hears barking but it doesn't seem like she can see whats on.

Answer 10

Some people believe that they do. Dogs do have black and white vision, so you really don't know what they see or not.

Answer 11

I'll let you know in my next life...lol
I plan on being a dog.....Don't I wish?

They can see color but a little blury
My Labs watches TV with me all the time.