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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Not meI honestly can't remember ever being cruel to an animal, except pouring salt on a slug once. I'd like to try my hand at hunting though.
When I was but a nipper, I had a cat. As many younguns do, I named my cat after a favourite cartoon character. Top Cat.
I'm still proud of that decision, twenty years later.
Anyway, one day my cat was hit by a car, and was found by a couple on their way to a dinner party next door. At the party was the local Vicar, who decided that there was nothing to be done for poor TC, and got in his car in order to finish him off the humane way.
Apparently it took the forcefulness of several other guests to convince him that TC seemed to be in quite reasonable shape, possibly only a broken leg, and regardless the vet down the road would be in a better position to make a life or death judgement.
A vicar with blood lust towards pets? There's a reason I stopped going to church.
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 15:31, 2 replies)
Cliffhanger?!Did TC make it though?!
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Top Cat?We must be the same age.
(, Sun 9 Dec 2007, 1:47, closed)
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