What is your cat's favorite color?

[susanswatlin518]

HI-I HAVE HEARD THAT CATS SEE SLIGHT COLOR- I BELIEVE HOWEVER, THAT THEY SEE DIFFERENT SHADES WHICH APPEAR TO THEM TO HAVE OVERALL GRAY TINTS. IT MAKES SENSE TO ME THAT A WARM COLOR OF A ROOM OR SLEEPING AREA WITH A FAVORITE BLANKET OR TOY WOULD APPEAL TO A CAT. I THINK THE EYE OF A CAT HAS "CONES" THAT PROCESS THE COLOR DIFFERENTLY FOR CATS AND DOGS. MY CATS' TOYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ALL COLORS BUT CATS OF COURSE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES AS YOU KNOW. BYE SUSANSWATLIN518

[catmandu]

I TOO CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FOUND CAT GO FOR ANY COLOR!!
SCENTS YES, THE SOUND OF A WHISKAS TEMPTATION POUCH, BUT COLORS NO!!!

[heidiv]

Oh I believe they see color Paris is in love with a green string....No, Joke we have tried to play with other strings and she takes no interest in it. But she manages to always bring us the green string....And then she lets out a big ol' Siamese M_E_O_W! That means play with me NOW!

[catfamily]

My KiKi that died a few years ago at 18 years old..LOVED the color Red.
He at 2 years old always went over and stared at anything red...just loved that color.That was about 20 years ago...when I myself knew that cats could see color (watching my KiKi) while all the smartest articles in the world were saying cats could not see color.
Just goes to show you how much they knew about kitty cats back then.
Even now they still say in some articles cats cannot see color.
We all know better

[StarandBratsmom]

Yep, I believe they can see colors. Cats are so much more smart than we think.

[sugarpaws]

I absolutely believe they distinguish colors. Our boys love to play with red and pink toys.
Marina

[Freedom]

Google feline color vision
Plenty of hits, such as this one:

http://www.cathealth.com/CatEyes.htm

Cones and Color Vision

The end result is that cats have poor detail vision compared to humans. And because cones are also responsible for color vision, cats have comparatively poor color vision. But they’re not colorblind. Instead, they have the same type of color vision as many people who are called colorblind: a type of red-green colorblindness termed deuteranopia. They can see blue versus other color fine, but tend to confuse colors on the red through brown through green continuum.

I have long read that cats do not see red. Nevertheless, several of my cats have also have favorite RED toys, blankies etc. Other cats are partial to the black ones. Haven't noticed any other color preferences.