HARVEY: Not for this animal. In the first place, you never have to feed him.
MAYNARD: What's that! You mean to say that this dog goes without food?
HARVEY: That's the idea exactly.
(FELIX shows signs of disgust. He can work up some funny business by taking off his mask whenever HARVEY and MAYNARD are talking together and quickly slipping it on again when he thinks their attention is directed towards him.)
MAYNARD: Why, it's preposterous. You don't suppose I would keep a dog around the house and never feed him?
HARVEY: I tell you this dog never eats.
MAYNARD: Why, that's cruelty to animals!
HARVEY: Well, if you feel that way about it, you might go out into an empty lot and get some rusty tomato cans and a few pieces of scrap iron and feed those to him.
MAYNARD: Does he enjoy such things?
HARVEY: Certainly he does. In fact, if you were to put a choice piece of juicy tenderloin steak before him right now that dog wouldn't touch it.