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# Dogs in London Are Feasting on Artisanal Organic Cuisine This Weekend

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_Published 2009-09-11. Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think_


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## Megan Gibson


Apr 11, 2015 4:43 PM UTC

by 

[Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/)


## Megan Gibson


Apr 11, 2015 4:43 PM UTC

A handful of dogs in east London are eating like kings this weekend.

At a two-day pop-up restaurant called The Curious Canine Kitchen, organizer Natasha Mason and certified raw-food chef Emily Stephenson served a five-course organic meal—including quinoa and buckwheat biscuits with apple and cinnamon—just for dogs.

Wearing a dress with a dog on it and a matching fascinator, Mason, a graphic designer-turned-yoga teacher and dog lover, greeted the dogs and owners as they made their way into the pop-up space on Saturday. Incense was burning and brightly colored paintings of dogs covered the walls. Mason’s own pup, a 4-year-old Griffon Bruxellois named Anatole Wolfrus Morrissey Zucowsky the Second (“He’s named after my dad”) was also at the event, making friends with the nearly dozen other dogs attending.

The healthy food event was inspired by the late Juliette de Baïracli Levy, a British herbalist and author whom Mason calls “the godmother of holistic dog care.” Clutching Anatole, Mason explained that dogs deserve to have healthy, delicious meals as much as humans do. “When you do a breakdown of what goes into dog food, all the additives,” — here she made a horrified face. “That’s not nutritious! That’s questionable.” So she wanted to create a menu of healthy, organic fare made with “top artisan supplies” that dogs would enjoy.

Tickets to the pop-up, which is being held on both Saturday and Sunday, ran for £20 (about $29) and sold out in a matter of days. (All of the proceeds will be donated to Amazon CARES, a charity which promotes wildlife conservation in the Peruvian Amazon region.)


As the crowd of mostly small, mostly well-behaved dogs munched on dishes such as crispy Paddywack with reishi mushroom cream, steamed chicken with dandelion and parsley quinoa, and tripe with wakame seaweed and kale, in between lapping up coconut water and beef consomme from small bowls, owners chatted with one another.

Chris Dodd, a 32-year-old film director who brought his sociable 1-year-old cockapoo named Dexter, said it was the first event like this for his pup. The dog is getting neutered on Monday, “so this is his treat before,” Dodd explained, as Dexter ran over to meet a dachshund in a neckerchief.

An eager Jack Russell terrier named Eddie pulled at the leash held by his dog-sitter Karen Stocker, a retired journalist and friend of Eddie’s owners. As Eddie snacked on popcorn made with coconut oil, Stocker confided, “Eddie’s not used to sharing so this should be interesting.”

Not everything on the menu was a hit with the canines; more than a few sides of seaweed are ignored. Maria Baez, the 17-year-old owner of Pulgas, a snowy white Bichon Frise, said that he’s usually “quite picky.” But most of the dogs in attendance were more than happy to chow down.


## Transcript

[00:00] >>Henry.
[00:00] >>Henry.
[00:00] >>Henry.
[00:00] >>Henry.
[00:00] >>Okay. The
[00:07] mission of the Duke Canine Cognition Center--
[00:09] >>One, two, three, go.
[00:12] >>is to understand dog Psychology in a way that
[00:15] people really haven't been looking at dogs until very
[00:19] recently. Dogs have shared an evolutionary history with
[00:22] us over the last 10, 000 or 15, 000 years at least.
[00:27] They solve problems more like we do, in
[00:31] many cases, more like we do than our closest relatives,
[00:35] Chimpanzees and Bonobos. We wanna study people's
[00:39] pets because there's no dog on the planet that's
[00:43] more sophisticated than a dog that has to manipulate
[00:45] or understand what its owner wishes, and what
[00:50] its owner is trying to get it to do.
[00:54] >>Henry.
[00:55] >>One of the games that we are presenting is a very
[00:58] simple game to try to understand how dogs
[01:02] understand our gestural communication.
[01:03] >>Here we go. Good job,
[01:08] Henry.
[01:09] >>The question is how do dogs understand that
[01:11] information and how do they use it? We wanna
[01:13] understand what, is the effect of domestication on dog
[01:17] psychology.
[01:17] >>We'll let them meet and then we could know, and
[01:20] then maybe he'll calm down.
[01:21] >>Hello. This is Bruno.
[01:21] >>Why is it that some breeds solve problems
[01:25] differently than others?
[01:26] >>Where is it? I don't have it.
[01:30] >>Since he's doing so good we're just gonna use his
[01:33] gaze or which cup he's standing closest to as his
[01:36] choice.
[01:36] >>The goal of all the research is really to understand
[01:38] what is it about our species that is so unique
[01:43] or different?
[01:43] >>Bruno! [ unk ] or dad? Boy, this is crazy business
[01:45] you're making me do. He's like, why don't you just give
[01:48] me the food? Bruno! Okay bye, Bruno.
[01:49] >>Bye, Bruno!
[01:49] >>Bye! Thanks for coming! Here you go-- one more
[01:49] for the road, Bruno, one more for the road. There you
[01:50] go big guy. There you go.

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