# You Beat your Dogs 2 Months Ago Because You’re Frustrated with Them, so You Adopt Another Dog

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**Created:** [August 3, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041 "2010-08-03T19:39:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/329 "2010-08-14T02:49:49Z")

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> [@curlcoat](#):
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> Another completely wrong thing. I wasn’t a teen, and my parents were not middle class.

Conclusive proof of **curly** s lying, people:

> [@Health care horror story #13848732](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-horror-story-13848732/522612/582):
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> > [@Health care horror story #13848732](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-horror-story-13848732/522612/582):
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> > Not only were you reduced to existing on _condiments_ instead of food, but by your own admission there were times you were reduced to _stealing_ even that!
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> Yup! Fourteen or so years old, and I didn’t have adult ethics.

She’s either lying now or was lying then. She has forgotten which details she added along the way.

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