Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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Doggy dental hijinksWe have a dog, and enjoy getting her to the beach. She's lovely, mostly Staffordshire Bull Terrier, with a bit of something else (we're not sure what - it could be Pointer). We call her Millie. Or Mildew, Milders, spacker, shithead, spuckwit (spliced from spacker and fuckwit) or spucky. (She answers to all of these). She's also a bit stupid, and hasn't grasped the notion that when playing fetch the stick, the general etiquette is to put the stick at your owners feet when you've brought it back, so they can pick it up again and throw it.
Instead, she will stand there, with both front paws on the bloody thing, ready to snatch it away if you even make a move to pick it up. Sometimes we manage to grab it before she does, whereupon she proceeds to jump around you and generally be a complete spacker.
Anyway, one day Tourettes is engaged in said game, and manages to prise a particularly prize specimen of dead tree from the dog's mouth. Millie proceeds to run around her like a loon, jumping up and trying to grab hold of the stick. Tourettes manages to shake her off long enough to get a good swing, and...
CRACK! Millie is suddenly whimpering and cowering away, blood pouring from her mouth. Obviously the stick has connected, and with some force too.
However, it was only after a couple of days, when we'd managed to get a good look at her mouth, that we realise that the force of the impact had actually shattered one of her teeth.
Has it taught her not to jump around like an eejit when playing stick though? Has it fuck...
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:52,
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FetchingMy dog a Collie and pretty intelligent, however she took hasn't grasped the idea of just dropping the ball and leaving it.
She drops it, hovers over it then grabs it before you have chance to.
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Lollylegs lite, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:59,
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I think most dogs do that.The trick is to find a second stick, distract them with it, throw it, and then retrieve the first stick.
Then repeat.
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Tried that...she just goes for both of them. Occasionally it works, but only once.
Bless her.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Dec 2007, 17:38,
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MineNeither of mine could care less when I wave a stick in front of them. If I throw it, the St. Bernard used to saunter over and sniff it where it landed and then walk away disinterested, but now she won't even do that.
Today is the Alaskan Malamute's 11th birthday. I'm thinking about buying him a steak after work.
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