This is CBS, Eye on the World.

I'm John Batchel with Jessica Pearson, Mark Beckhoff.

A Dog's World is their new presentation of imagining,

this is a thought experiment, imagining the lives of dogs and a world without humans.

So we've gone through the home dogs, the free-ranging dogs, and the feral dogs.

We're made the transition.

We're now in a world where there's no memory, first generation, second generation, third

generation of human beings, homo sapiens.

The dogs are in pack behavior.

Then they've found a style that suits them in the niche where they live, desert to forests,

to high latitudes, low, and we're dealing with some truths that we can imagine for the future.

And Jessica, one of the things that I was most impressed by is that

there is no future dog. There is a universal dog. We've talked about its characteristics,

but I'm keen on its psychology, on what it would imagine the world to be. Does it see itself as a, as a, as top of the food chain, these dogs hunting in packs?

Because my observation is that wolves are in their environment, certainly dominant.

Will dogs in the future see themselves as dominant jessica

that's a good question i uh...

i'm not sure i think it could go either way i think uh...

my intuitive answer to your question is dogs are just going to see themselves as

as sort of fluid part of their ecosystem, that they

don't have this sense of the sort of meta place in the world, the way we might imagine

them to be. They will just be who they are and do what they need to do to get by.

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