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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Cat with lactose allergyMy lovely, beautiful, dumb little mong of a cat (deceased, sadly missed) Camilla had a lactose allergy. So I was told, very firmly, not to give her any milk. Ever. Or she would be ill.
Of course, being a very youg girl, I simply had to see this for myself. A Saucer of milk later, she's staggering round the kitchen, vomiting every 30 secs, until she just has the dry heaves (and we all know how painful they can be). I saw she was in pain, and felt really guilty about that. I also had to clear up the pools of vomit that appeared for the next 14 hours.
"Right, no more milk for her then!" I told myself.
And, to say sorry for making her ill, I promptly gave her a chunk of butter, forgetting that was also made of lactose. Cue a lot more vomiting interspersed with pained kitty-cries.
She didn't forgive me for a while for that one.
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 14:58, Reply)
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