skills.
LIFESTYLE BENEFIT: Scheduled Feeding allows dog to eat with owner, affords owner chance to discuss, over meal, with dog, the things Jewish people
talk about when they eat, which is where they ate in the past and where they will eat in the future. Free Feeding allows owner
to feel that she denies dog nothing, which is more than you could ever say about her parents. Surprise feeding allows owner
to feel generous, robust, and in touch with “life.”
Some dogs should not ever be exposed to Free Feeding and should be exposed to Dog-Being-Raised-Jewish Feeding only after extensive
Jewish training because they are born “food-driven” and will, if left to their own devices, literally eat themselves into
illness.
One such dog is Copper, a beagle, who proved an interesting specimen for our Inner Monologue study. What follows is a sample
of his Inner Monologue before we accepted him into our program:
INNER MONOLOGUE: “COPPER” (BEAGLE, MALE)
Age 12
GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT
FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME
DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD.
GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD.
Note: The full printout of Copper’s raw Inner Monologue data continues with this text for twelve single-spaced pages.
Before enrolling in our Program, Copper’s owner had switched his food from regular to low-fat. By the end of the training,
the owner concluded that Jews and diets “don’t work,” switched him back to regular food, and remodeled her kitchen to include
a single entrance with a lockable door. Copper, meanwhile, learned a bit of patience from the Program and demonstrated a modified
Inner Monologue in which the sentences were transformed into “WOULD IT KILL YOU TO GIMME DAT FOOD?”
Copper: “Gimme dat food.”
NOT-EATING
Because food and eating play such a central role in the emotional life of the dog being raised Jewish, the subject of not-eating
requires some discussion.
Not-eating occurs when the dog doesn’t eat. This behavior can have several causes, one of which is that the dog is—supposedly—not
hungry. However, since eating for the Jewish dog is connected with a variety of emotional states other than mere hunger, the
owner is entitled to be skeptical when the dog professes that he is not hungry and to suspect that the dog is deliberately
not eating for some other reason or purpose, including:
• Wanting to torment the owner
• Wanting to “get back at” the owner for some previous wrong
• Being in one of his “moods”
• Because nothing is ever good enough
• Because something is always the matter
• Because God forbid the owner’s life should be easy
• Because the dog doesn’t like the owner’s cooking, apparently
• Because the dog thinks he’s “fat,” which is the owner’s fault for giving him a poor self-image
• Because the owner stresses the dog out too much
• Or something.
Not- eating may be a sign that dog is sick — or, alternatively, that he thought he ordered the French toast. It is up to owner
to figure out which. (Tip: One simple test is to make some French toast. If dog still doesn’t eat, rush him to vet.)
In any case, the appropriate response to the sight of a dog not eating is to stand over the dog and say, “Since when are you
not eating?” Continue to say this until the dog eats. If, after a reasonable period of time, the dog continues to not eat,
say “Fine, do what you want” and walk away. Then feel guilty, return, and rush the dog to the vet.
DOG FOOD: COMMERCIAL
When raising a Jewish dog, what kind of food should you feed him?
The answer to this lies in
LIFESTYLE BENEFIT: Scheduled Feeding allows dog to eat with owner, affords owner chance to discuss, over meal, with dog, the things Jewish people
talk about when they eat, which is where they ate in the past and where they will eat in the future. Free Feeding allows owner
to feel that she denies dog nothing, which is more than you could ever say about her parents. Surprise feeding allows owner
to feel generous, robust, and in touch with “life.”
Some dogs should not ever be exposed to Free Feeding and should be exposed to Dog-Being-Raised-Jewish Feeding only after extensive
Jewish training because they are born “food-driven” and will, if left to their own devices, literally eat themselves into
illness.
One such dog is Copper, a beagle, who proved an interesting specimen for our Inner Monologue study. What follows is a sample
of his Inner Monologue before we accepted him into our program:
INNER MONOLOGUE: “COPPER” (BEAGLE, MALE)
Age 12
GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT
FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME
DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD.
GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD. GIMME DAT FOOD.
Note: The full printout of Copper’s raw Inner Monologue data continues with this text for twelve single-spaced pages.
Before enrolling in our Program, Copper’s owner had switched his food from regular to low-fat. By the end of the training,
the owner concluded that Jews and diets “don’t work,” switched him back to regular food, and remodeled her kitchen to include
a single entrance with a lockable door. Copper, meanwhile, learned a bit of patience from the Program and demonstrated a modified
Inner Monologue in which the sentences were transformed into “WOULD IT KILL YOU TO GIMME DAT FOOD?”
Copper: “Gimme dat food.”
NOT-EATING
Because food and eating play such a central role in the emotional life of the dog being raised Jewish, the subject of not-eating
requires some discussion.
Not-eating occurs when the dog doesn’t eat. This behavior can have several causes, one of which is that the dog is—supposedly—not
hungry. However, since eating for the Jewish dog is connected with a variety of emotional states other than mere hunger, the
owner is entitled to be skeptical when the dog professes that he is not hungry and to suspect that the dog is deliberately
not eating for some other reason or purpose, including:
• Wanting to torment the owner
• Wanting to “get back at” the owner for some previous wrong
• Being in one of his “moods”
• Because nothing is ever good enough
• Because something is always the matter
• Because God forbid the owner’s life should be easy
• Because the dog doesn’t like the owner’s cooking, apparently
• Because the dog thinks he’s “fat,” which is the owner’s fault for giving him a poor self-image
• Because the owner stresses the dog out too much
• Or something.
Not- eating may be a sign that dog is sick — or, alternatively, that he thought he ordered the French toast. It is up to owner
to figure out which. (Tip: One simple test is to make some French toast. If dog still doesn’t eat, rush him to vet.)
In any case, the appropriate response to the sight of a dog not eating is to stand over the dog and say, “Since when are you
not eating?” Continue to say this until the dog eats. If, after a reasonable period of time, the dog continues to not eat,
say “Fine, do what you want” and walk away. Then feel guilty, return, and rush the dog to the vet.
DOG FOOD: COMMERCIAL
When raising a Jewish dog, what kind of food should you feed him?
The answer to this lies in
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