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Do dogs really see in black & white?

I feel bad for how they see. Cant see color crying

Yesh, thats true lol! and can u imagine being a rabbit? and seeing from the sides of ur head? lolz, now that would be weird!!! ^^

Thats very intersting! I read that dogs can only see in black and white. maybe we will never know lolz, unless we are dogs ourselves! ^.^

Dogs BOTH see color and are colorblind!!

I gathered some information on the subject, the best answer I found was on wikianswers, here you go:

Dogs do in fact see "in color", as shown by the fact that a dogs' eyes contains both rods (which we associate with B/W vision) and cones (which differentiate between colors)...dogs see somewhat as does a human with red-green color blindness. This means, for instance, that what a human perceives as red, a dog probably perceives as green, and what a human perceives as yellow, a dog sees as a nuetral color -- gray.
While rods (which detect light at lower levels but do not tell the brain which color) are widely distributed in humans and dogs, the human eye has more cones, so the human eye can discriminate color more readily.

A dog sees in 2 colors verus a human's 3 (and a parrot's 4), but perceives low light conditions better than humans.
Dogs CAN see Color
...About one hundred years ago some scientific tests were conducted to find out more about the color vision of dogs. But, these tests were terribly conducted and the researchers concluded only that color vision doesn't play a part in the daily life of a dog.
NINETY YEARS LATER specific research has shown that dogs CAN perceive colors. Neitz, Geist and Jacobs researched in 1989 the color vision of domesticated dogs and found the following facts:
Dogs have two different color receptors in their eyes and therefore are dichromats.
One color receptor peaks at the blue-violet range, the other at the yellow-green range.
This means that dogs are green-blind which is one form of red-green color blindness also called deuteranopia.
These results were support by the later research of Jacobs with colleagues in 1993 by Miller and Murphy in 1995.
Dogs are colorblind
Colorblind describes the fact that you can't see the same color range as somebody with normal vision. Because of that, any kind of color vision deficiency is called color blindness. Therefore dogs are colorblind because of their dichromatic color vision.

The color spectrum is made up of wavelengths of light; what causes the difference in what we see is our biologically predisposed perceptions. Since dogs only have two different color receptors in their eyes, they have problems distinguishing the following colors:
Red - Orange - Green
Greenish Blue - Gray
Different shades of Purple
The list is not completed and there are a lot of different shades which can't be differentiated if you are colorblind.

While Humans see the rainbow- ROYGBIV- Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet
Dogs actually see- RYYYBIV- red yellow yellow yellow blue inigo violet
Orange, yellow and green look all the same to a dog and BLUE- GREEN is seen as WHITE by a dog