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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Maggots!!In Year 8 I remember doing a respiration experiment involving maggots. Through careful use of a vacuum pump, which only the teacher was allowed to touch, as the maggots breathed out bubbles were sucked through the water and you had to count them (or something).
Before i get shouted down I know i've probably remembered this wrong and got it round the wrong way - I gave up science as quickly as possible and did History at uni so nyah.
Anyway this one lesson, the experiment was set up bubbling happily away in the corner. Until the teacher had to pop out for some reason and we were left on our own.
Ross then dared Ally to fiddle with the vacuum pump settings "to see what'd happen". Ally, nneeding little encouragement for stuff like this, started turning it up and down a few times. However this wasn't that exciting as all it seemed to do was change the speed of the bubbles.
So Ally then had the bright idea of switching the settings on the pump from 'suck' to 'blow' (fnar!)....
Watching maggots being shot across a room at 60 mph is not a sight you forget in a hurry. Neither was the squelching sound they made as they smacked into the wall.
There was a stunned silence promptly followed by Al running back to his seat. I think the marks were still there until they redecorated in my little brother's last year.
Length? They flew a good 7 or 8 feet.
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 15:28, 2 replies)
Just today,someone in the uni lab accidentally inhaled a woodlouse by using a pooter incorrectly. Chortle!
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Bob Todd whee, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 16:00,
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Why, when I looked at that article, did I see the word 'orgasm' instead of 'organism'?(
idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 3:09,
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