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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Pigeon shitOK, so this doesn't quite meet the criterion of the question, which asks for "accidental" animal cruelty - but I'll tell my story anyway.
When I was living at my father's house, we had a huge patio which would often be spattered by the droppings of pigeons which nested at the hopper at the top of the drainpipe. My father had tried repeatedly to block it off by rigging up wire mesh over the eaves - but the pigeons always found a way in.
One day I got pissed off with them - and the need to continually wash the patio with a waterjet - so I fashioned a pike: this was a copper pipe, with a sharpened nail attached to the end with a jubilee clip.
I went up onto the roof, and uncovered the slanting access point from the flat roof to the hopper. The pigeons flew away from the disturbance. However, having uncovered it I went back into the house and waited a while.
Later, when the pigeons had returned to their roost, I crept up on them stealthily - pike in hand - and jabbed it into the centre of the hopper...
Voilà! And that's the story of how I made pigeon kebabs.
Needless to say, our patio was a lot cleaner in the future.
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We used to try blasting our pigeons with a big-arsed water gun.Eventually they went away when the old lady next door died -- she used to feed them, and with their free food source gone they fucked off.
Then a shouty family moved into that house. I think I'd rather have the pigeons.
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Bob Todd whee, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 18:02,
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