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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Anecdote alertBut I used to share a house with a biologist who as part of her PhD used to trap moths and other flying wing-ed creatures and knock them out and freeze them for study at a later date. She told me that she has seldom been as terrified as the night she went into the lab, took a tray of pinned fuzzy flying things out of the freezer to make room for another tray and was startled by the sound of a gigantic creature pinned to the board which had woken up from its cryogenic slumber and was not happy.
And that's why I prefer to work in the lab with purely inanimate objects. And I'm not talking about my work collegues. Well, actually...
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