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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Dying in your sleep isn't always peacefulA story related to me by a neurotic friend of my neurotic sister, but her parents confirmed the details. When she was about eight years old, on a normal school morning she and her family get in to the car to do the school run. The key goes in the ignition, the engine starts turning when suddenly there's a loud shriek and a blast of fur from the vents. It appears their cat had climbed inside the car because it was nice and warm and had fallen asleep, only to be digested by the fan belt. In her words she didn't understand what was going on at the time, instead she was "given a lollypop and told to go inside."
A similar series of events happened to my dad once, an early morning in 1988 and he's reversing out of his parking space when there's a series of unpleasant noises. It appears yet another tired cat had decided to sleep under the wheel arch and was now quite literally mangled around the axle. According to my mum he almost started crying as he had to remove it and checked his car all over for cats before he started it for ages after that.
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