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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ok spikeypickle, i hadn't read the QOTW properlyso allow me to regale you with a story of accidental cruelty. When i were but a lad about 11-12 years old, i got a budgie. I named him Joey for i was short of imagination even then.
He was a great bird, would come out of the cage on your finger, fly around, hop back on your finger and go back into his cage.
One day I ran out of Trill bird food. I recalled a friend of mine who also had budgies telling me that whenever he ran out of bird food, he would simply put some cornflakes into the birds food dish until he got a chance to buy some more Trill.
I checked our cupboards and we were out of cornflakes but we did have weetabix so I crushed up some and put it in his dish. A day or two later I arrived home with some freshly purchased bird food to find poor Joey lying sparko flat on his back very much dead.
I never considered the fact that when weetabix gets wet it expands considerably. I can only surmise that poor Joey ate until he was full then sat back on his perch growing ever more distressed that the food in his already full tummy was steadily increasing in size.
Then again, maybe he was just gluten intolerent! Either way, I felt bad. I also recall feeling a bit miffed that I'd wasted some of my pocket money on bird food that would never be used.
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sneep used to date Freddie Starr's hamster, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 14:40,
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Pigeons and Dogs....I've heard of Pigeon's crops actually bursting after they've eaten rice...
But I know a dog that ate a bowl of bread dough while it was raising by the fire. The owner found him lying in terrible pain, but he survived withough problems.... and he was letting out rather yeasty-smelling farts. =)
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 14:46,
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much betterthat made me chuckle
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SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 14:53,
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