"Feed Jake" is a song written by Danny Mayo, and recorded by American country music band Pirates of the Mississippi.
Later on, one of the men is attending the other's funeral, and the surviving man goes to meet his dog Jake, a Labrador which he and the deceased friend adopted together, at the cemetery.
Upon its release, many viewers interpreted the video as depicting a relationship between two gay men, one of whom dies of AIDS at the end.
[2] Kimberly Lansing, then the executive producer of Deaton-Flanigen Productions, said that the video was "not meant one way or another" regarding the back story or the one man's death.
[2] In the book The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Tom Roland wrote that the final verse, with its theme of tolerance towards gay people, showed a shift in political beliefs for the typically conservative country music audience.