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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Poor ladybug...My family lived out on a ranch for a few year while there was a bit of a mouse & rat infestation. When we drove at night they would be darting across the road every few seconds. I'm sure at least one met its end in our tire treads.
One day my mother turned on the oven, only to discover that a mouse had built a nest somewhere inside it. Within a minute a mouse was running back and forth to move its babies to a safer abode.
During the same time, a rat made a nest in the car's fan belt and got absolutely shredded.
One morning I woke up to be regaled with stories about how a rat had gotten in and my dad had cornered it under my bed while I slept, since the cat was too lazy to kill it. He crushed it with a 2x4.Okay, that wasn't an accident, and neither was this:
When we were staying in a crappy motel in Hawaii, we replaced "mouse infestation" with "scary two-inch cockroach infestation." One night my dad killed one while my sister (4 years old at the time) watched with tears streaming down her face and uttered the words "poor ladybug."
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