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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Wet pussy storyWet pussy is always good even if, as in this case, it's ginger and a bit daft.
My sister and her husband have two cats. The older one is fat, lazy, smart and friendly. the younger one is thick as shit, skinny, scatty and to cap it all, ginger. Anyway, sis had had a note round to say the water company were doing some work in her street and the supply would be off for a day. So she filled the bath with water.
You can see where this is going.
Later that day she was in the bathroom, when cat no. 2 came hurtling up the stairs, into the bathroom and jumped straight into the bath. Which was full of cold water. Of course, much of this water ended up on the floor as the now soggy, confused and rather distressed moggy thrashed about trying to get traction on the slippery enamel and eventually scrabbled his way out of the bath, leaving a trail of water all through the house.
The thing is, she'd never seen him even jump up onto the bath before, let alone straight in over the side. If that cat was human it would keep social services in business single handed.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 14:06,
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Bath funWe had a cat that liked to lie in the empty bath and (not quite sure how my wife discovered this but...) be violently shoved round the tub like a polishing cloth. She used to go crazy for this, regularly leaping into the bath for shammy time. It's a miracle she never jumped into a full one.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 14:22,
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Flatfrog...I'm in tears of laughter.
My cat loves the bath. Her new favourite is to sit on my chest as I'm in the bath and go to sleep, negating my "I'm in this big bowl of water to wash" reasoning, but cute and mental none the less. Every so often, she lands in the water. Silly cat face.
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