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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I love animals, honestly.Now i used to have a small dog, a bijon frise cross. Little scruffy white rat dog with an underbite, some kind of duty to bark at everything that moved or not... and epilepsy.
Now i thought it was kinda cruel when id bring my friends home from school, open the kitchen door to find the dog shivering, stiff as a plank, foaming and pissing all over the place only to have them poke it and laugh until they were in almost the same state.
Maybe not as cruel as sellotaping some buttered toast to my cats back. (Surprisingly this does not somehow make the cat defy the laws of physics and hover and spin 3 inches above the ground, however it would not come near me for a week or so after.)
Or possibly sending my parrot into shock many times by hoofing cushions at the cage when it wouldn't shut up.
Or you know that really cool trick people can do, where they pull the table cloth off really quick leaving all cutlery etc as if nothing had ever happened? Does'nt have the same effect when you try and do the same with a dog sitting on a rug on a tiled floor, not even after a few 'practice' runs... I think he deserved it after he burrowed into my new guinea pigs run and ripped it to pieces, only to bring it inside with its eye hanging out by a thread, looking very pleased with himself. Oh i did cry.
(, Sun 9 Dec 2007, 13:46, Reply)
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