Accidental animal cruelty
I 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.
( , Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
I 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.
( , Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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Not accidental
When my brother and I were young, him 7, me 9, we discovered a kitten in the back garden. Aw, lovely, we thought. What's the best thing to do with this?
Volley-ball, obviously.
We threw the poor thing back and forth, over the clothes-line, in the dark for a good half hour before my parents came out and asked what was causing such hilarity.
We got a bit of a telling off for our cruelty, they took the cat into the house, and then put an advert out asking if anyone had lost a small furry item. We were gutted, cos we wanted to keep our newfound friend. The next night, said cat had disappeared.
Turned out it had hidden behind the cooker and kept quiet. For three days. A clever little kitten, with such monsters on the prowl. It only got discovered when it mewled from hunger.
Someone eventually came to pick it up. I don't remember the details, but I assume my parents didn't tell the owners about the poor creatures treatment at our childish, but savage, hands.
I suggest a new joiner to the "I Like this" links... "I don't like this at all!! call the police!!"
Neither big nor clever.
But, by god, it was funny at the time.
( , Sat 8 Dec 2007, 3:30, 1 reply)
When my brother and I were young, him 7, me 9, we discovered a kitten in the back garden. Aw, lovely, we thought. What's the best thing to do with this?
Volley-ball, obviously.
We threw the poor thing back and forth, over the clothes-line, in the dark for a good half hour before my parents came out and asked what was causing such hilarity.
We got a bit of a telling off for our cruelty, they took the cat into the house, and then put an advert out asking if anyone had lost a small furry item. We were gutted, cos we wanted to keep our newfound friend. The next night, said cat had disappeared.
Turned out it had hidden behind the cooker and kept quiet. For three days. A clever little kitten, with such monsters on the prowl. It only got discovered when it mewled from hunger.
Someone eventually came to pick it up. I don't remember the details, but I assume my parents didn't tell the owners about the poor creatures treatment at our childish, but savage, hands.
I suggest a new joiner to the "I Like this" links... "I don't like this at all!! call the police!!"
Neither big nor clever.
But, by god, it was funny at the time.
( , Sat 8 Dec 2007, 3:30, 1 reply)
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