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 so much animal cruelty but...... an elderly lady that lived near me kept goats. She had a couple of billy kids and a very very old nanny goat, and for various reasons decided that she needed to have them put down. So, she called the vet, who did the necessary and buried them in a hole her next-door neighbour had dug just for this purpose.
With his JCB.
Which he'd hired for a week.
And which went back the day before the vet came.
I got a phone call - "Can you pop over to check on P and give her a hand filling that hole in?" Game old soul but she was in her eighties, and shouldn't be barrowing earth about.
The hole they had dug, to bury three small goats, would have comfortably swallowed a Transit van. And was now full of water. And floating bits of goat. It took a day to fill in by hand.
Length? About 17 feet. And 8 feet wide by 7 feet deep.
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 19:18, Reply)
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