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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spatial awareness of cats: confusion thereofmoving furniture is always a confuser.
I rearranged my room once, and put a desk where the bed once was. My cat came in and had a right old time trying to decide where the bed was, sniffing around the desk for it and not finding it. I picked him up and put him on the bed; he looked at it in a "no, that's not right, the bed's over there" sort of way, jumped off and tried burrowing behind the desk to get to the bed. It took a couple of days to get him used to the new layout. Silly old cat, bless him.
Cats, of course, like their routines. they like knowing what goes where and what doesn't. what they don't like is when the glass panel door with one missing panel at the bottom suddenly has its glass replaced one day ... *bonk*.
And... i was about five, remember... please don't feel too badly about this... i decided my cat's whiskers were too long and trimmed them short on one side. The poor little bugger went round in circles bumping into things for weeks. I didn't intend to be cruel, it just sort of happened.
Apologies for length, or lack of on one side anyway...
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I re-arranged my bedroom once,and had my bed where the wardrobe was, and the desk where the bed was. My pussycat Doris was most baffled. She understood where the bed was almost immediately, but she was very puzzled. "What are you doing lying here, Mummy? You don't sleep here."
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Bob Todd whee, Sat 8 Dec 2007, 11:37,
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