# Cats colorblind or not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951 "2000-04-24T03:21:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![JiNX\_PinkyDW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@JiNX\_PinkyDW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JiNX_PinkyDW)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951/1 "2000-04-24T03:21:00Z")

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I’ve been reading a lot of wildlife essays lately from a certain magazine. Unfortunately I found that two issues of said magazine completely conflict each other on the topic of whether or not cats can see in color. Can you settle this for me?

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no, not hacker… Whacker

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**Author:** ![junebeetle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@junebeetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junebeetle)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951/2 "2000-04-24T05:08:00Z")

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Cats are not completely colorblind. Check this out:  
[http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/cats/color/](http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/cats/color/)

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951/3 "2000-04-24T07:32:00Z")

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Cecil covered this topic in: [Are cats and dogs really color-blind? How do they know?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_004.html) and came up with the same basic conclusions as the link above: they can see in color, but their color vision isn’t as good as ours, and they don’t depend on it as much as humans do.

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**Author:** ![JiNX\_PinkyDW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@JiNX\_PinkyDW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JiNX_PinkyDW)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-colorblind-or-not/10951/4 "2000-04-24T13:18:00Z")

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Thanks guys

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no, not hacker… Whacker