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 daftnessOne of my cats, Binki, is the friendliest, loveliest cat imaginable, but has a tendency to do stupid things. When we got her and her sister we let them sleep on the bed at night - they were usually fairly well behaved.
One particularly warm summer's night Binki decided that she'd much rather be on the very top shelf of the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves which were right beside the bed. You can probably guess the rest.
Somehow a cat weighing at most a few pounds managed to simultaneously dislodge 30-40 books, which of course plummeted from the shelf onto my sleeping form. It being warm, I had elected to forgo duvet/pyjamas, and was therefore completely unprotected. My bellow of pain probably did nothing to calm Binki, who was at this point closely following the books and hit my back about a second later, claws out, running full pelt.
Somehow I managed to catapult the cat across the bed, across the room and into the wall, where she slid rather inelegantly to the floor. Amazingly she was fine - I had large gouges in my back for the next couple of weeks though.
Length? About 8-9 feet, in an almost flat trajectory.
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 21:38, Reply)
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