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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lab workIntentional cruelty to houseflies is probably about as unacceptable as cruelty to yoghurt.
A friend of mine used to work as a lab assistant at a college, and one day he's going about his duties, cleaning nasty shit out of test-tubes and so on, when he spies a big bluebottle flying into the room. He ignores it, but it keeps flying about until he manages to stun it with a wire gauze.
He scoops it up into a test-tube and decides to give it the full Moonraker treatment in the centrifuge.
After 5 mins, he shuts it off and retrieves the fly, expecting to find it nicely seperated. But no, it just sits there.
He tips it out, and after about 20secs, it wakes up and flies off as if it was pissed.
He catches it again in a tube, and drops a tiny bit of acid on it, which it objected to by buzzing extremely loud.
He was most disappointed.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 15:33,
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