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FRIENDSHIP LOST: 3/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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FRIENDSHIP LOST: 3/4 A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans, by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff

https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-World-Imagining-without-Humans/dp/0691196184

What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog’s World imagines a posthuman future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive―and possibly even thrive―and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now.

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Without humans, that's important here.

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There's going to be a transition and then soon there will be dogs around the

0:52.0

planet without humans feeding them or bothering them or

0:55.4

abusing them or expecting them to look a certain way. They'll have longer

1:00.0

snouts likely, they'll run likely, they'll be of medium weight unless there's

1:06.0

necessity for heavyweights they'll move in packs but reproduction Jessica I come to you because one of the striking details about dogs today is the paternal member,

1:20.0

the parent father, does not, is not encouraged to stick around or doesn't stick around and

1:25.9

you and Mark are speculating imagining that there would likely be a change

1:32.3

when dogs are alone so it wouldn't just be the maternal.

1:36.0

It would be the paternal as well.

1:38.0

Did I read that correctly, Jessica?

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You did. In the way dogs, particularly pet dogs or dogs who are, you know,

1:49.7

highly controlled by humans, you know, we hijack their the reproductive process in various

1:57.4

ways and one of the ways in which we do that is taking puppies away at the what we consider the perfect age for puppy acquisition, you know,

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