This is how pets see your home

The images of an apartment processed based on the sight of dogs, cats, fish and other animals.

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How many times have you wondered how yours see pets and what do they perceive of the environment around them? The topic is not new and we already know a lot about the sight of animals, but thanks to a new project by Home Advisor, today we can get a better idea of the way we see the world for dogs, cats and other animals that visit our home.

After creating a virtual room, Home Adivisor processed the images using data from several scientific studies available in the literature, to compare the viewing of pets with ours.

The differences depend on the structure of the eye, different between the various species, which influences the ability to perceive colors, the visual field, the details that can be grasped.

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Il dog, for example, does not see in black and white as some believe. In reality she perceives colors but in a more tenuous way, she cannot see red and distinguishes shapes and details less than we do. The vision of the environment is therefore pastel in shades of blue and yellow. On the other hand, it has a field of view of 240 degrees.

How do you see the dog / Home Advisor

Il cat instead it has a slightly lower field of view than the dog, but wider than ours (200 degrees) and in addition to blue and yellow it can also see green.

As the cat sees / Home Advisor

If you have Red fishes in the aquarium, know that for them your home is incredibly colorful, a little blurry and probably very dirty: the fish can in fact perceive ultraviolet light and see spots that we do not see, at almost 360 degrees.

The View of the Goldfish / Home Advisor

- birds they see very well and perceive blue, green and red in the visible UV spectrum, but also ultraviolet which we do not see. Plus, they have a nearly 300-degree field of view and fast focus. Conversely, they can focus on an environment with only one eye, while the other looks the other way.

The Parrot View / Home Advisor

Most snakes instead, it has very poor daytime vision and the image they have of your apartment is similar to a thermography, while i chameleons they perceive many colors but with little contrast and i spiders they see very little, as if they have a strong myopia.