Non-working: Cloudant save doc using jquery.couch.js

saveDoc.js

var db = $.couch.db('https://username:password@username.cloudant.com/crud');

var doc = {"_id":"foo", "name": "bar"};

db.saveDoc(doc, {
  success: function(response, textStatus, jqXHR){
    console.log(response);
  },
  error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
    console.log(errorThrown);
  }
});

Errors:

OPTIONS
file:///C:/https%3A%2F%2Fusername%3Apassword%40username.cloudant.com%2Fcrud/foo Resource failed to load jquery-1.8.3.min.js:2

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'error' of null