A Mystery Solved, An Excuse and We are Yellow!

1 The Mystery

Some of you may recall seeing this humiliating video of poor Tara searching for her red ball in a pile of leaves.

Since this video was made I have been contemplating taking her to an optometrist for an eye exam.

But first I consulted with my friend Google and found some interesting info about our doodle's vision.

The doodle color spectrum vs the human color spectrum:

As you can see, there is NO red in the Doodle world. This was a relief an interesting bit of info in regard to Tara's flailing about determined pathetic attempt to find her red ball. I say MYSTERY SOLVED!!! My Doodle girl IS ready for Search and Rescue as long as there is nothing RED involved!!!

2. The Excuse

I also discovered THIS info:

"Visual Acuity

This is an area that humans hold an advantage. Resolution or Visual Acuity is the ability to resolve shapes over a distance. For instance it is not uncommon for a human to have 20/ 20 vision. This means at 20 feet they can see what a person with ‘good’ sight can see at 20 feet. However a dog typically has approximately 20/ 75 vision (range 20/50 to 20/100). This means that a human at 75 feet can see the same shape differentiation that a dog has at 20 feet from an object.

You may like to remember this the next time your dog is a long way off (with its head much closer to the ground) and you call them and expect them to see you. At long distances dogs rely much more on their higher audio detection capabilities and movement detection to see humans."

I thought I was having problems with Tara and her long distance recall but now I understand that she just can't seem me! (wink wink). Training problem SOLVED!!

3. We are Yellow

This is the really scary part!!! You have to see me wearing yellow to truly understand!!

How humans see:

How Doodles see:

Are we really yellow to our doodles???? OMD!!!

So there you have it! A mystery solved, a great excuse and sorry people but we are yellow!!

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Permalink Reply by Leslie J on February 12, 2012 at 1:05pm

I have to thank everyone who participated in this thread! I have a friend visiting who saw a bookmark for DK and asked how much people could write about their dogs... I only had to direct her to this informative thread to show her how endless the possibilities are... she got the point and had a good laugh!

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Permalink Reply by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on February 12, 2012 at 3:25pm

OMD, Leslie! It seems your friend has a good sense of humor! She should get a doodle and join us!!

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Permalink Reply by Leslie J on February 12, 2012 at 5:35pm

She should! She threatened to sneak Cocoa home with her- definitely a future DKer (but she'll have to get her own doodle, she wasn't able to smuggle Cocoa out :)

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Permalink Reply by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on February 12, 2012 at 6:16pm

Yes, she will have to get her OWN doodle. Doodle thievery, no matter how tempting, is not allowed here!! In the meantime keep a close eye on Cocoa!!

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer,Chloe & Myla on February 13, 2012 at 5:04am

First of thanks for the saddening info Ricki-I want them to see what we see (I know they don't) not YELLOW!

Second-do you need Myla to come show Tara how to find the red ball? You know she has the same one and her squeaker is long gone from it! Ok so she don't "FETCH" but she ALWAYS knows where that RED ball is!! (BECAUSE SHE TAKES IT WITH HER EVERYWHERE!)

You are a good doodle mom to make up all these excuses for sweet Tara, we can't all be the sharpest knife in the drawer!

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Permalink Reply by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on February 13, 2012 at 11:39am

Jennifer I know you are just lashing out irrationally by calling Tara a dull knife because you are angry about being yellow. I felt the same way, it's not my favorite color either! I would prefer a nice shade of blue or green myself. :)