Artist's Eyes

You know those neon-colored highlighters people use?  The ones that are pink or blue or yellow? Fio has to use hum-drum black ballpoint underlining instead because the bright colors distract her from the underlying print.  And she can't use red ink when she is writing out one of her daily lists because it is too bright for her to read on the fly.  Yes, Fio's eyes are extremely color-sensitive. Being an artist was not her choice, but her fate.

Color Schemes

I wonder if the red I see
Is other people's red
And if our blues are just the same
Or if we all instead
Call colors by a different name

ALMOST, ALMOST

Colors

CONSIDER:
Red + yellow = orange
Blue + yellow =  green
Blue + red =  purple

Red + blue + yellow = brown

ERGO:
Purple + yellow = brown
Red + green = brown
Orange + blue = brown

Speech, Vision, Hearing

Sonya Dog has shown no interest in learning how to speak English, but she does understand a few words of it.  She usually obeys "sit," "stay," "down," "come," and "leave it," but translates "no" as meaning "please leap up beside me on the couch and make yourself comfortable."
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Some dogs may be color-blind, but Sonia recognizes blue.  She knows that anyone at PetsMart wearing a blue shirt will give her treat, and she's wary of the blue tarp that Husband covers the riding mower with.  The black tarp was okay, but that blue one is highly suspicious.
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Sonia can hear the rip of Velcro from three rooms and a floor away when Mommy is putting on her outdoor shoes to go for a walk, but she doesn't even twitch an eyelid when Daddy's alarm clock rings.