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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Oh yeahWhen fishing for barbel one March, the river level was very low. I cast the luncheon meat bait downstream, it landed on a gravel bar and a duck got it before I could do anything. I can report that ducks fight about as hard as barbel when you're trying to rell them in, and make a lot more noise.
When we'd finally managed to catch and immobilise the well-pissed-off duck, the hook just fell out; it was only all the struggling (maintaining the tension on the line) that kept the hook lodged in its (very hard) beak.
You'd think all that would have scared the fish away, but I caught the year's club record barbel half an hour later :-)
(, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 22:25, Reply)
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