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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Poor little hedgehog.A few years ago when I was sharing a house with my brother we came home from work to find a hedgehog sitting by our back door.
It didn't seem to be moving, even when we came close, but a gentle prod made it stir a little - it was alive.
"Poor hedgehog must be ill" we thought, so we phoned the RSPCA. Baring in mind this was a Friday evening the guy on the other end of the phone told us the soonest they could get to us was on Monday. In the meantime he told us to get a box, put some ripped up newspaper in the bottom for a bed, and give it a bowl of water mixed with honey. He also told us that if it didn't seem well enough to eat for itself we should use a cotton bud to feed it ourselves.
Anyway, Monday came and the RSPCA guy arrived. We showed him the patient and he started his diagnosis. "Ouch" he said as he pointed out that one of its front legs was missing "looks like it got hit by a car" - we'd not noticed this at all, RSPCA man gave us a disapproving look. As he continued his examination he then pointed out that the poor things jaw was broken - and that flies had already laid eggs in its throat. The guys face changed from "im disappointed with you" to "twats!".
All this while, we'd been (gently) jamming a honey soaked cotton bud past its broken jaw, feeding it just enough to prolong what must have been an agonising 3 days of being-eaten-alive-by-maggots-from-the-inside kinda torture.
Poor Shithead, we buried him.
:'(
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 19:06, 2 replies)
And to top it allyou buried him alive?! That bit must have been intentional, surely?
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 19:56, closed)
:'(this caused me major heart contractions of the painful and weepy type.
:(
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 20:21, closed)
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