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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flying voles!Last year our landlord had some scrubby ground outside our house concreted over, and shortly afterwards I found a small family of voles looking a bit lost huddled outside our front door.
I decided to lift them over to the hedge, as they were a bit exposed and looked rather stunned, so I picked the first one up.
Of course a great big hand suddenly scooping you up is pretty scary for a vole, so it bit as hard as it could into my finger, and was dangling off by its teeth.
It really hurt so I tried to shake it off and it went flying through the air and landed with a nasty crunch. I then had to finish it off as it was broken in all sorts of places.
I left the rest to find their own bloody way to the hedge!
We now have cats, so no voles/mice etc survive within a 23 mile radius, and we often get to watch as our kittens bring them home and gradually bludgeon them to death.
Length? It takes them about 3/4 an hour to kill a small vole.
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