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I 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.

(I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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As a child
I was using the extra tubing from the vacuum cleaner as an improvised sword (as you do). Anyway, I swung it at an invisible enemy. Unfortunately, the end tube flew off and hit one of our two goldfish bowls. Being young and silly, rather than pick the fish up and put them into the other bowl, I ran to the kitchen and filled up a mixing bowl of water to put them in. By the time I got back, my mother had put the fish into the other bowl.

The fish lived, but I felt awful for treating them in such a shabby way. Until, that is, I realised that their tiny mockery of a brain is incapable of comprehending pain or suffering and that they are basically moist robots.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 10:38, 4 replies)
Don't conflate pain and suffering
They aren't the same. One can suffer without pain, and be in pain without suffering.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 10:56, closed)
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It has never been proved that fish don't feel pain, or have what are, to them, emotions. Their brains and physiology are wired diffently to humans, so the usual rules don't neccesarily apply.

Therefore, it's always better to assume that they do feel pain.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 12:24, closed)
Fish do feel pain.
They're vertebrates; why wouldn't they?
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 22:05, closed)
Fish are stupid
in the unlikely event that they feel pain, it's no more than they deserve.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Sat 8 Dec 2007, 13:39, closed)

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