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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Really gladthis QOTW has been brought back, it always made me sad that it no longer existed in the archive.
Anyway, at school one of the quirkier biology teachers had a tank that housed two axylotls (think lizards with gills). They were quite good fun, and would generally try and bite anything that was waggled on the surface of the water - fingertips, pencils etc. All pretty harmless fun, until someone waved a bit of cadbury's caramel infront of one, which was then greedily wolfed down.
It went belly up the next day. I'm not sure whether that was the real point of cruelty, or whether it was more the point at which our teacher calmly tossed the corpse into an old nescafé jar filled with formaldehyde...
length? Can't really recall, though it did gain a bit of girth after eating the chocolate...
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Don't feed animals choc!It contains theobromine, which is toxic. Humans are just lucky in that our lethal dose of theobromine is much higher than most other animals'. It would take 21lb of baker's chocolate for a human to die of theobromine poisoning, but a dog can die after one slice of chocolate cake.
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Bob Todd whee, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 4:06,
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