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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My ex sat on the dog one night.Max the Dirtbag was a sweet tempered shepherd/husky mix, about as wonderful a dog as I could have asked for. His main purpose in life, it turned out, was to follow my kids around and eat anything they dropped, or at least sniff at it.
One night we were having dinner and my middle child was in a snit over something and was being extremely snarky. He was sitting next to his mother at the time on the bench at the kitchen table, and she told him to settle down or she would reach over and give him a wedgie. (It was a constant family in-joke for years.)
He roared back, "Oh yeah? I'll give you a wedgie!" and jumped up on the bench and yanked on the back of her jeans. As he was about 8 and rather muscular he sorta leaned into her as he was doing so, and she fell off the bench- right on top of Max.
Cue one freaked out and frantically barking dog going apeshit in her face for landing her butt on him and one eight year old boy looking down into the face of certain doom, followed by me cracking up...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 19:22,
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