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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I just remembered this. Deliberate, but hey...I regularly kill Lacewings and Moths through suffocation. They fly into my face when I'm trying to get to sleep and feel creepy and disgusting.
I switch my reading lamp on, find a suitable vessel (usually a glass, there'll always be one kicking around in my room somewhere), catch said insect and place the glass upside-down on the windowsill. I then leave it to fly around until it dies.
If I'm feeling evil, I'll subject it to a Nazi Death Camp-style gassing. I slide the glass to the edge of the windowsill until it over-hangs by a centimeter or so, then spray deoderent up into the glass. The insects seem to get high and fly erratically, instead of around and around in circles. Perhaps that's what inspired the Nazis...
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mr_wicksy is.... old., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 7:25,
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