Seeing the world through a TikTok filter may hold the secret to your dog’s happiness.
Creator Abby Krieser (@abbykrieser) recently posted a viral video on the app, in which she uses a camera filter while shopping for pet toys. The video has 2.3 million views and more than 66,000 likes.
@abbykrieser From now on I always use this filter when buying him toys 🥹
♬ original sound – JordanKPaul
On TikTok, Krieser shops the pet aisle at a HomeGoods location and looks at the toys through the “Dog vision” filter from creator @trusted.housesitters. The filter shows a world where blue and yellow colors pop, and every other color is muted. The video uses audio from creator @jordankpaul, who also made a video using the filter, saying it’s similar to how they see the world as a color-blind person.
In Krieser’s video, he selects a bright blue toy from the store. Then TikTok showed his dog playing completely at home.
“From now on, I always use this filter when I buy him toys,” Krieser captioned the video.
One commenter wrote, “Dude my dog legit loves all our blue and yellow stuff.”
“That’s why my dog likes the ‘butter scented’ yellow flower chew but not the purple/pink one”[peanut] butter scented’ chew,” commented another.
“My dog always favors his blue toys. I get it,” shouted one viewer.
“This filter is how I learned my dog loves the color blue!” someone wrote.
“Crazy I just did this and his favorite toys are the brightest with this filter,” another viewer commented.
According to a 2021 article from the American Kennel Club, “Dogs can see yellow and blue, and combinations of those colors. This makes most of the world gray-brown.”
Dogs see the world similar to people with red-green color blindness, according to the club. He attributes this insight to how the retina is structured: “Dogs have more rods than cones in their retina, whereas humans have more cones, and this apparently makes a difference in perception of color. Humans and some other primate species are trichromatic, which means they have three types of cones. Dogs are dichromatic, and have only two types.”
The Daily Dot reached Krieser via TikTok and HomeGoods via email.
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*First Published: Sep 7, 2023, 1:38 pm CDT
Eric Webb
Eric Webb is a native Texan and national award-winning pop culture critic, arts and entertainment journalist, and editor.
