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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Accidentally pureed hamsterI must have been 9 years old at the time. I was at a day-care center with other hyperactive children in a play area that included a) a small portable see-saw sort of thing made from metal tubing, b) piles of nondescript, broken toys, and c) a cage with a hamster in it. Two kids were on both seats of the see-saw, swaying back and forth like some sort of mutant rocking chair.
Someone ran over and let the hamster out of the cage, playing with it on the floor. The hamster, likely driven insane by being surrounded by (from its point of view) 50-foot-tall screaming giants, darted about the room evading their hands as they attempted to grab it.
I have no idea where the caretaker was during this episode.
At this point I was on one of the seats of the see-saw as it rocked back and forth on the carpet. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and CRUNCH.
I looked down. The curved metal foot of the see-saw had nailed the hamster across the hindquarters, crushing it flat.
I leaped off the see-saw in horror as the hamster ran off as fast as its forelegs could drag it. It only made it about ten feet before stopping. The other kids in the room were behaving in a manner I wouldn't witness until the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed 21 years later.
The vision of that poor little bugger vainly attempting to flee despite its entire lower body pulverised... I will take it with me to my grave.
(, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 11:19, Reply)
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