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(Scientific American)		Why do dogs get blue eyes instead of red eyes in flash photos? (sciam.com)		62
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attic		2002-10-28 10:06:37 AM

My cat's a freak.

Maveno		2002-10-28 01:56:20 PM

Cool picture Attic!

EvanTH		2002-10-28 01:56:39 PM

I started to read this article, but then I realized it was going to be boring.

CACA!		2002-10-28 01:57:22 PM

Because Inside every dog is a white person.

WickedWanda		2002-10-28 01:58:24 PM

Only via the flash can you see the true alien being that has possessed your pet.

donkster		2002-10-28 01:58:24 PM

Hey Attic, look down your shirt and spell your nick.

KickahaOta		2002-10-28 01:58:52 PM

Because dogs are intrinsically good, and humans and cats are intrinsically evil. (Or, in the case of Attic's cat, intrinsically 100Base-T compatible--the left eye is apparently "link", and the right eye "activity".)

ididntdoit		2002-10-28 01:59:23 PM

Because they can.

AlgertMan		2002-10-28 01:59:25 PM

cause they demons mother farker

Jay_Santos		2002-10-28 01:59:33 PM

Because they can!

No wait, that's why they lick their own balls...

JaneDoe		2002-10-28 01:59:48 PM

Beagles get green eyes.

the_marq		2002-10-28 02:00:19 PM

More importantly:

Why does a dog lick his balls?

Because he can!

hehe...

bigdork666		2002-10-28 02:00:38 PM

Because they are gay ?

MrSaturn		2002-10-28 02:01:09 PM

In other news...
Still no cure for cancer

Jay_Santos		2002-10-28 02:02:22 PM

I bet Cerberus gets red eyes.

davemak		2002-10-28 02:02:43 PM

If humans get red-eye and dogs get blue-eye, do dogs get red balls?

CoolBeans		2002-10-28 02:05:06 PM

The_marq:
so, you're 14 years old and just heard this joke for the first time.

Alton		2002-10-28 02:06:38 PM

I understand what they are saying, but it still boogles my mind. I mean, why does it look like that??

Cute pic Attic.

MetaPhyzix		2002-10-28 02:10:54 PM

What dog has blue eyes in photos? My dog's eyes just end up glowing yellow in photos.

mrcookieface		2002-10-28 02:12:02 PM

Alton		2002-10-28 02:12:41 PM

MetaPhyzix, let your dog out more.

Pseudo Psy		2002-10-28 02:13:21 PM

My evil Labrador

Riddil		2002-10-28 02:13:24 PM

Camaris		2002-10-28 02:17:43 PM

Kylie		2002-10-28 02:18:40 PM

Mrcookieface I love your cute puppy pic!!

h8red		2002-10-28 02:20:34 PM

I haven't read the article, but if I had to guess I'd say it's probably because dogs are color blind. That is to say, their eyes don't have either the rods or the cones (right now I can't remember which one enables colored sight) which causes the reflection of the flash to be blue.

Hau'oli Haole		2002-10-28 02:20:34 PM

This is not entirely true, as I have a picture of my old dog flaring RED eyes. It was '77, the summer of Son of Sam, and my dog, named SAM, we called the demon dog, cause of the red eye picture, and the dog that talked to berkowitz. my dog could not talk, however. i don't think.
He sure as hell couldn't listen.

KickahaOta		2002-10-28 02:21:33 PM

Must... fetch... dog biscuits. Must... kill... cat.

creamcheeseinpanties		2002-10-28 02:24:42 PM

HYPNOTOAD, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

mrcookieface		2002-10-28 02:25:32 PM

Thanks Kylie, that's actually my dog too.

Psycho_Inductive		2002-10-28 02:26:16 PM

As an odd thought for anyone who actualy read the article:

Can I get a tepatal layer put into my eyes? I want sever low light vision too. Plus, then when everyone has red-eye, I can have blue eye.

D

AmyJK		2002-10-28 02:26:50 PM

Hau'oli Haole...naw, he just didnt have anything interesting to say to you, that or maybe you just thought he couldnt talk, demon dogs are like that

LaughingBoy		2002-10-28 02:27:08 PM

Well, my dog's eyes are often red in flash photos. I don't get it....

farquaad		2002-10-28 02:28:01 PM

I always knew both of them were 'different'.

AmyJK		2002-10-28 02:28:31 PM

how about brown eye?

god I suck............

bass555		2002-10-28 02:30:03 PM

must.....obey.....Hypno-toad.....

Hau'oli Haole		2002-10-28 02:30:21 PM

AmyJK,
He'd have been a sorry excuse for a demon, he was afraid to go out at night. Had to carry him downstairs and watch him poop on the bottom step. Would not touch the ground. Also, the dog only barked at people he knew. Reverse watch dog, that's what else we used to call him.

RyeGuy		2002-10-28 02:31:36 PM

Actually, I was in S. Africa, and learned that carnivores have red eyes, while the "prey" have both blue/green and yellow eyes.

AmyJK		2002-10-28 02:36:04 PM

thats interesting RyeGuy......really

kab		2002-10-28 02:42:18 PM

cool picture Attic.

JaneDoe		2002-10-28 02:43:52 PM

enolA_eiD		2002-10-28 02:48:57 PM

cats are stupid.

Nesta		2002-10-28 02:52:04 PM

Oh, JaneDoe - is that a little beagle guy?

C U T E

DBCooper		2002-10-28 02:55:50 PM

Don't it make your brown eyes blue?

Kylie		2002-10-28 02:58:28 PM

Mrcookieface I figured it was! I remember you mentioning that you had a few pugs...

sswift		2002-10-28 02:58:32 PM

Woof!

goatrider		2002-10-28 02:58:38 PM

Usually, they are green. I don't know why these are red. I used a "red-eye" filter in PhotoStudio, which is tuned to human red-eye, and they turned green.

dgodwin		2002-10-28 03:05:53 PM

the "red eye" filter probably just adds the cyan colour to the eyes. If you buy one of those red eye pens at a camera store, it's just a cyan coloured marker. Cyan and Red are opposites, and will cancel each other out, leaving red eyes a neutral black/brown colour.

goatrider		2002-10-28 03:14:13 PM

Dgodwin I knew that. I was just pointing out that after removing red, I got green eyes, which shows that this red-eye is different than human red-eye.