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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Survival Of The FittestBack in the days of GSCE Science, I was set a assignment at school. We paired up in class, were given a number of maggots (around 20), and had to conduct a scientific experiment based on the maggots.
At the end of the lesson, we made our presentations to the class. Ours had been a fairly tame experiment - we'd set up lamps shining different colours outside a circle of maggots to see if they were attracted to a particular colour. Boring, but it had passed half an hour with plenty of time to discuss what colour underwear we thought the girls were wearing.
One student duo, however, had been slightly more brutal. They enigmatically produced one maggot at the end of class, declaring it to be "the greatest maggot". And then they explained.
They'd set up a run using rulers to essentially drag-race maggots over a 20cm distance. The winner - victorious. The loser - stamped on by an adolescent science student. This went through a complicated set of stages, akin to the World Cup Tournament, until one maggot had defeated all in his group, and subsequent knock-out stages.
Cue half off the class absolutely aghast, the other half sickened but slightly impressed by the Darwin-esque approach to a science assignment.
I'd like to think they went on to become pioneers of the medical world, but I seriously suspect they're out there somewhere murdering hitchhikers.
Length? Probably seemed like a 100m sprint to the maggots.
Probably in no way accidental, unless you have very skewed views on natural selection. But I've typed it now, so meh.
(, Sun 9 Dec 2007, 0:33, Reply)
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