# Maybe a dingo ate your baby **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524 "2007-01-03T12:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/281 "2007-01-05T20:57:51Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Maybe you’re a cock sucking whore. Who knows. [/QUOTE] Lib, this is (or should be) beneath you. You wanna melt down after only a few weeks back? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/282 "2007-01-05T21:13:02Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Lib, this is (or should be) beneath you. You wanna melt down after only a few weeks back? [/QUOTE] No, I think you’re right. Appreciate that. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/283 "2007-01-05T21:53:07Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal from the other thread] My daughter recently had a baby. My first non-step grandchild. **She did not hesitate to rid herself of her cat** , and I support her decision a hundred percent. The infant child is way at the top of the pyramid, and everything else — everything — including the mother herself is somewhere below. Any risk, even a miniscule risk, of anything going wrong, and harm coming to the child is simply completely unacceptable. She did other things, too, to prepare her home. Neither she nor her husband smoke inside anymore. She loved her cat, and she did solicit all her friends and family, and even advertised on the Net to get **the creature** a home. But nothing panned out, and she had no choice but to take the cat to a shelter. I just hope you won’t be too hard on the family that didn’t wait to see whether the cat and their baby got along. The infant child is so utterly helpless, you just wouldn’t believe. And we already lost one grandchild (my wife’s) to brain cancer. I’m glad my daughter made the decision she made. [/QUOTE] bolding mine **Liberal** , IMO the highlighted parts of the post are what makes this more of a threadshitting that it might otherwise have been. “She did not hestitate…” makes it sound like she put two minutes into this decision. “The creature” is just as if the cat is not a even a pet, but more of a thing your daughter had around. The tone of your post is what made it sound bad; we have only your words to determine her feelings on the subject. And don’t get smartassed and say I can’t hear your tone–that’s the whole point, and you know it. If it can be taken that way by someone, it will be and clarification can be offered easiliy and peacefully without your usual fanfare and drama, entertaining though it can be. And the stuff about how helpless a baby is and blah, blah, blah…jeez, **Lib** , everyone on this board has made it through being a baby; it can’t be that hard. this post should kill the thread…I’m usually really good at that. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/284 "2007-01-05T22:01:36Z")
Well, I still defend my daughter’s decision, **Stretch** , and based on our own prior experiences, I’m glad she did what she did. In retrospect, _however_, I would have much more carefully worded my response in the MPSIMS thread, probably leaving that part out of it altogether. Although you might not believe me, my only intention was to be “chatty” there. Write a bit about our cats, and the problem my daughter had with hers. I do understand that my reputation precedes me, but I don’t want to have to walk on glass each time I post. Maybe if past issues could be kept there, you and others would discover I’m really not such a terrible person. (Not a great leader or anything, but not an intentional liar, back peddler, or shit slinger.) ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/285 "2007-01-05T22:15:27Z")
I don’t think you are a terrible person; I think you have terrible moments like all of us. We’ll just see what the future brings. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/286 "2007-01-05T23:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I do understand that my reputation precedes me, but I don’t want to have to walk on glass each time I post. Maybe if past issues could be kept there, you and others would discover I’m really not such a terrible person. (Not a great leader or anything, but not an intentional liar, back peddler, or shit slinger.) [/QUOTE] What’s a back go for these days? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/287 "2007-01-06T00:07:25Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] What’s a back go for these days? [/QUOTE] 😃 About a nichol. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524/288 "2007-01-06T01:03:58Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Or even worse, ordering milk in a bar for your smoking cat … who’s also a fundie. [/QUOTE] Who doesn’t tip the waitress and orders his steak well-done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-a-dingo-ate-your-baby/386524.md?page=14)