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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puppy vs. huge catI suppose i should have planned things a bit better and acquired a puppy and a kitten at the same time. That's said to work. What works rather less well is when one already has two abnormally large, muscular, sleek, self-important cats and then introduces a small puppy who just wants to love everybody he meets. Nearly two years later the situation is still the same, the puppy (dog by now) is far bigger than the cats but has them imprinted as his betters, and is always trying to creep up to them to make friends. The cats are having none of that shit. Last week he came running to me in a terrible state with a cat's claw-casing still embedded in his nose. I do have some guilt-feelings for making my dog a cat's bitch, but it probably would have happened anyway. we got another (even bigger) dog recently and he got exactly the same contemptuous, slash-and hiss treatment. Should I feel bad? answers on a postcard, please.
No apologies for length, I am what I am, and what I am, needs no excuses.
(, Sat 8 Dec 2007, 1:42, Reply)
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