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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animal revengeA seagull bounced off my head in Brighton a few years ago. Maybe it was the wind, or maybe it was just shit at flying, but it hit me from behind and almost knocked me over. It felt like a wet pillow that smelled of fish.
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Are you sure it was a seagull?The description sounds like Rachelswipe
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That sounds more likedeliberate cruelty to rswipe than accidental cruelty to animals. Be careful, Mong the Merciless.
It's not seagulls with me, but I'm forever having near misses with feral urban pigeons. They seem to fly within inches of my face, causing me to take evasive action. Deformed bastards that they are.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 11:35,
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K2k6,They just enjoy watching you thinking you're being evasive but actually looking like you're wobbling about to any strangers who didn't see the high speed pigeons but did see you "dancing" in the street.
Pigeons have cruel sense of humours.
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PigeonsAye, well I'm always tempted to take a tennis racquet or the like down the town and play 'smack the pigeon' when they do that to me. But the RSPB probably wouldn't appreciate it.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 12:18,
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NoThe RSPCA will put you in prison for 20 years for looking at a dog funny, but if you mug someone and slash their face with a broken bottle, you might get a fine or a holiday in Barbados.
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I've often saidthat I was going to start carrying a hockey stick downtown for the pigeons. The stupid bastard things bob along the sidewalks, and when you get close to them they suddenly spring into flight for about ten feet- and after a minute you catch up with them again.
People who feed them should be fed to them, IMHO.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 11 Dec 2007, 12:25,
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a wet pillow?depends whose head it is.
it'd be a whole lot drier for some people than for others.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:25,
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