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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mostly accidentalI was in charge of our school fish tank. I quite liked it, but some of the reprobates I went to school enjoyed dropping things in with the fish. After a series of incidents with ink cartridges, there weren’t that many creatures left when some idiot placed a full loaf of bread in there. At that point I decided to put my fish-caring responsibilities on the backburner, and didn’t touch the tank again for a while.
The tank was in a relatively unused library where teachers almost never went, and my lack of attention went unnoticed until one teacher found himself having to explain to the parents he was showing around why his school contained a jet black fish tank, brimful with ink, mould and algae.
So, I had to clean things up. Rolling up my sleeves to clear out the gunk, I scraped away layer upon layer of foul-smelling filth to find, living amongst the inky water, an almost white, yet still alive, fish. It had survived for months in water filled with absolute crap, and no heat, with its only food being a decomposing loaf of bread.
While that part of the fish's life can’t have been much fun, it may at least have provided some preparation for its next stage, when it was flushed down the toilet so I didn’t have to look after fish any more.
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 0:52, Reply)
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