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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NelsonA number of years ago, we used to have a fishtank on our landing containing three fish. One was massive ('Goliath'), one fat and silly looking ('Spotty'), and one boring one ('Coral'). As with all childhood pets, by the first week they had lost all of their somewhat limited novelty, and from then on it was my reluctant father's job to maintain their upkeep.
Now, when changing the water in a fishtank, the best way to do it is to use a long length of plastic piping and an alternative container, placed below the level of the fishtank. (This may well be a technique all you home-brewers out there are familiar with!). You briefly, but powerfully, suck on the tubing, and then allow the laws of physics to deposit the water from the fishtank into the container. Naturally, this creates quite a powerful sucking force inside the fishtank. As Dad was only changing about half of the water to maintain its cleanliness, as the tank had a water-filter anyway, he didn't bother to remove the three fish from the tank - they were extremely elusive when it came to catching them and, after all, he was only changing a little of the water. Anyway, just as Dad was initially sucking on the tube to create such a force, a curious Goliath swims up to the end of the tube
Pop.
I've never seen my Dad move so bloody fast. Why? He was avoiding the fish-eye that had just been sucked from Goliath's body, and was winging its way in the direction of his gob.
The eye came clean away into the tube, gushed through it with the water and plopped into the bucket with all of the excess liquid. Fish is meanwhile thrashing in clear agony in the tank, looking distressed and bewildered (well, as distressed and bewildered as a goldfish can.) The fish survived, would you believe it, and led a very happy life with its remaining eye in the tank - bloody thing lived for about 8 years, in fact. Needless to say, from then on Dad used the humble 'jug' method to empty the fishtank... and we changed the fish's name.
Length? About 2mm!
(, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 20:02, 1 reply)
My friend KT...Used to have a goldfish who's eye used to pop out and back in all the time, still attatched. She called it Popeye. Ick.
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vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 22:58,
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