A dog sits under a table and as if by magic a row of sausages fly into his mouth. Similar to When oh When but moving more towards comedy. The tension of a large dog head sitting on your lap is meant to indicate fear, but the sausages are meant to soften this - the dog head may be scary but it just wants to be fed, to see what food is around. Again, the dog is somewhere it isn’t supposed to be, led by its hunger.

Also a common dog name used to be Fido. It's short for fidelity or faithfulness. Portraits of wives with dogs in their lap used to represent faithfulness. In paintings about Melancholia, there would often be a dog there to represent how sadness lingers like a loyal dog at your heels.