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 Father...... liked to put his cat in an old fashioned draw-string PE bag. He'd put the cat in and pull the cord so that the bag closed snugly around the animal's neck; leaving the body in but it's head sticking out.
Then he would attach the bag cord to the washing line, securing it with pegs. Then for the fun part! He would give the poor cat a mighty spin and send it doing multiple twirls and loops. All the time he'd be able to look at it's unhappy cat face as it went flying like an astonaut being tested for G-forces...
He also liked to throw the cat off the balcony, reasoning that it had 9 lives so if he only did it up to 8 times it'd be OK.
It is accidental when they don't know it's wrong, right?
Lenght? Until he got told to stop I suppose...
*Edit: He was only 5 or 6 at the time. He isn't a bad man really.*
(, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 20:28, 4 replies)
Sorry, butyour father's cruel. He certainly should have known better by the time he was an adult.
It's people doing things like this that make me really want to get un-fluffy with them in a very big way.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 20:35,
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Resident Loon,I think bryce is saying his dad did it as a child.
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Bob Todd whee, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 20:36,
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Ah. My mistake, then. Sorry.I've known adults who did such things, though. And yes, I got very unpleasant with them.
I love animals and get very defensive of them when I see them being mistreated. Not to the point of being militant about it, mind you- I'm not a PETA member or anything like that- but I do tend to stand up for the fuzzy little things. (Or feathers or scales or whatever.)
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Dec 2007, 20:41,
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Clarification:Sorry yes, he was only 5 or 6 when he did it. If he still did such things I would prolly tell him to stop. Or maybe do it on the sly, I certainly wouldn't want the PE bag treatment...
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