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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Repeated accidental animal crueltyI have had many hamsters in my lifetime...
Hamster #1 got dropped in a bowl of boiling hot bleach (by accident, I hasten to add)
Hamster #2 was subject to a six year old's curiosity. I wanted to see if hamsters could swim*
Hamster #3 fell under the wheel of a Barbie car.
Hamster #4 bit a wire and electrocuted herself.
Hamster #5 was the only intelligent hamster and within days of buying him he'd made a break for the great wide world to make something of himself.
... That is until he was unfortunately savaged by a neighbouring dog within hours of his escape.
Hamster #6 had babies with Hamster #7
Hamster #7 didn't take to the world of fatherhood and comitted suicide.
Hamster #6 had a second litter of babies with Hamster #8
Unforunately, the offspring of Hamster #7 ate the offspring of Hamster #8 in a frenzy of blood and gore.
Hamster #6 and Hamster #8 went on to live happy lives...
Until my sister dropped the cage on the floor.
You'll be happy to know that I have not been allowed to keep a hamster since.
*No, in case you were wondering, they cannot.
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 13:59, 3 replies)
How on earth...Do you drop a hamster into a bowl of boiling hot bleach, by accident? Why were you boiling bleach? It probably passed out from the chlorine gas!!!
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 16:09, closed)
lofichicWell, there was boiling water and bleach together in a big bowl of plastic happiness. It was being used by my mother to scrub out the smelly, poo-smeared cage. As she was putting the hamster back in it bit her and she dropped it into the bowl of bleachy water that was stood next to the cage.
... Or so she tells me. I have my suspicions, more than half our pets have been killed by her hands.
(, Sat 8 Dec 2007, 12:30, closed)
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