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Jeremyironseverything · 02/11/2020 06:22

You are to be stuck in a room for a few hours. You can choose to spend this time with either a baby or a puppy. What would you choose?

If you can argue your case well enough, then I may consider letting you spend it with another type of creature.

I chose puppy.

OP posts:
Girlwithkaleidoscopehair · 02/11/2020 18:00

Can I have a baby jaguar or tiger pls?

PoltergeistPirates · 02/11/2020 18:50

Kitten!

Or

Hot Postmn

Jeremyironseverything · 02/11/2020 21:29

@xanthippe8

I couldn't be trusted with a baby or a puppy, could I have a tardigrade please? It would stand a chance of surviving.
Had to Google that. It isn't approved due to its lack of cuteness.

No hot postmen either, I'm afraid. Sorry.

OP posts:
DramaAlpaca · 02/11/2020 21:32

A puppy. No question.

Unless I'm allowed a kitten instead.

Jeremyironseverything · 02/11/2020 21:32

Why postmen anyway? Nothing against postmen, it's just not usual fantasy material.

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Rockbird · 02/11/2020 21:39

Puppies are cute but I'll take the newborn. I haven't had dark peepy-eyed baby snuggles for nearly 9 years!

PoltergeistPirates · 02/11/2020 21:50

It is a particular Postmn that is Hot!

Jeremyironseverything · 02/11/2020 21:59

If I make an exception for you poltergeist then people will be asking for all sorts of hot company. Can't you compromise with say, a nice rabbit...

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CoronaBollox · 02/11/2020 22:06

Is it my baby? If yes then the puppy please. If not then still the puppy please.

send help I'm tired

CoronaBollox · 02/11/2020 22:07

Sorry I missed the roolz bit. Blame the baby, that will not be joining me!

PoltergeistPirates · 02/11/2020 22:21

Ooh I would love a fluffy little rabbit, thank you. A dwarf hotot.

BashfulClam · 02/11/2020 22:33

Puppy, babies are boring if they aren’t yours and puppies are way more fun!

YellowHighlighterPen · 02/11/2020 22:38

Puppy.

Brigante9 · 02/11/2020 22:40

Puppy, a thousand times over! Look at the puppy belly!

You are in a room alone...
SenorFrog · 02/11/2020 22:42

If I absolutely have to have one then puppy, so long as it is quiet and I can just read with it curled beside me. My dc are older now but I'd have happily supplied the babies for this experiment back in the day.

BoogieFeet · 02/11/2020 22:42

Puppy or kitten

OddHoleySocks · 02/11/2020 22:48

Definitely the puppy.

I've done my time with the baby thing.

kaleishorrid · 02/11/2020 22:48

Baby - I don't like animals indoors

Mxflamingnoravera · 02/11/2020 22:52

Neither. Not keen on babies (I had two of my own and much preferred the teenage years).

And I really dislike dogs.

A kitten on the other hand...

Stillinbedat10am · 02/11/2020 23:08

I'll have a book and a quokka please! Alternatively, if the quokka proves to hard to smuggle in then I'll accept a kitten.

donquixotedelamancha · 02/11/2020 23:24

Can I take back the approval on that one?

Aww. Ok, I'll hand back the cow and make do with the baby or puppy. Whichever is plumper please.

Is a bottle of red wine and some garlic out of the question?

Jeremyironseverything · 02/11/2020 23:35

@donquixotedelamancha

Can I take back the approval on that one?

Aww. Ok, I'll hand back the cow and make do with the baby or puppy. Whichever is plumper please.

Is a bottle of red wine and some garlic out of the question?

Plump baby/puppy with red wine and garlic? 😳

You aren't welcome in the room at all. Everyone else is in a haze of gorgeous puppy or baby wonder, with the odd kitten etc thrown in, and you have such thoughts. You deviant, you.

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donquixotedelamancha · 02/11/2020 23:41

A few hours, you said. I just wanted to get a bit of cooking done after 20 minutes of entertainment teaching the baby/puppy to fetch and roll over.

Fine. I'll have a lovely cutesy-wutsey baby venison deer please.

TheoriginalLEM · 02/11/2020 23:43

My.children are grown - puppy

It would always be puppy

I work with animals - i am so lucky

Stompythedinosaur · 02/11/2020 23:58

Puppy, clearly.

I am literally amazing that anyone would pick a baby.

I mean, I loved my babies, but they were hard work to care for. A puppy would be far more pleasant!