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1. 

   Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   Oh, stop picking on Doug, Sophie!

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   rayannina said, about 1 month ago

   Hmmmm … smells like a combination of wet Doug and wet Sophie.

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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

   So Doug looks like manure to Sophie?

4. 

   rac0308 said, about 1 month ago

   clean and fresh?

5. 

   Ji2m said, about 1 month ago

   Fresh farm air is great, depending on which way the wind is blowing.

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   Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

   Phew! Sounds like Doug needs his diaper changed.

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   BC13 said, about 1 month ago

   One big cow pasture in one small little bundle.

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   ninmas said, about 1 month ago

   one hair, one tooth, poopy, yep, that’s a farm alright!

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   Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

   Sophie didn’t say that the farm smelled like Doug smells. He said it smelled like Doug looks.

   That means Sophie has a low opinion of Doug.

   At least, she doesn’t act like the title of the strip and eat him.

   From what happened with a real baby and a lab puppy here in Tulsa, I wouldn’t leave that breed of puppy alone with a baby.

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    notinksanymore said, about 1 month ago

    Why do people keep bringing up the puppy that ate the baby on this strip? That puppy had not been fed for days, possibly more than a week. Of course it ate the baby! It’s natural for animals to prey on weaker beings when hungry! The moral isn’t “don’t leave a lab alone with a baby,” it’s “don’t starve your pets!”

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    Ji2m said, about 1 month ago

    JAD, That is an urban legend… Oi!

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    TimeTraveler said, about 1 month ago

    But but the dingo ate my baby.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    No, a real labrador puppy that was several months old killed a real baby who had been left unattended for several hours in a home in Southern Tulsa.

    The teenage mother was asleep in the rear of her parent’s house. And her mother was asleep in another bedroom.

    The baby’s father and grandfather had gotten up and fed the baby in a child’s swing when they ate breakfast.

    The baby’s father was living with them and he left for work first. The grandfather left about 30 minutes later.

    Instead of taking the baby back to the mother’s bedroom, the older man just left the baby in the swing.

    The girl’s father had supposedly told her to get up.

    When the girl and her mother got up, they saw that the baby was dead and the dog had eaten some of its lfesh.

    The puppy was supposedly owned by their other daughter who wasn’t even living there.

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    Tigger said, about 1 month ago

    Sophie, you should ahve smells like you, why did we have to come?

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    Ji2m said, about 1 month ago

    JAD,

    My apologies. I found the story on a “respectable” news source, http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8746561

    However, the puppy was only two or three months old itself. I found no mention that the puppy was starving, (If someone can locate a reputable report, I’d like to see it).

    According to the report, the infant child was placed in a swing. (I assume a wind-up swing). So the child’s feet were likely dangling.

    From my experience, puppies at that age like to chew on just about anything. If the child was in a mechanical swing, it would be an irresistible temptation to “play”. Again, from my experience puppy teeth at that age are like needles. So several bites from a puppy can be very painful and do significant damage if not stopped.

    Given the tendency of the media to sensationalize a story, I doubt the child was truly “eaten” by the puppy. What probably happened is the child bled out from the wounds from the puppy’s play bites.

    I’ll grant that some animal instinct may have taken over at some point, but I highly doubt it. Even wolf puppies have to learn to hunt and kill from the adult pack members. Given that modern dogs are so far removed their wolf ancestry and that the animal was so young, I think this was a tragic confluence of circumstance and not an attack by a vicious animal.

    One shouldn’t blame any breed of dog for the abuse or failings of their human caretakers. The mother and father of the infant are more culpable than the puppy. Regrettably, it was the puppy that was put to death.