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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I may have mentioned my ex-wife's cat, Fuckhead* on here once or twice before...For those of you that don't know, he was a small black ball of utter stupididity, and I hated him. I'm usually very much a cat person, but there was something about him that really rubbed me up the wrong way.
Anyway, one year we went away for New Year, to some friends in Scotland. We were away for 5 days and 4 nights, and on our return found that we'd inadvertently locked him in the lounge.
He'd narrowly avoided electrocuting himself by using a corner of the room as a toilet - it just happened to be the one that contained the computer, and about a thousand miles of cables and extension sockets.
He was starving hungry as there was nothing for him to eat in that room, but he had at least had water, as he'd managed to drink it out of the Christmas tree stand.
I still hated him, but I felt sorry for him that day.
*not his real name
(, Mon 10 Dec 2007, 14:34, 3 replies)
Who the fuck goes away for a weekand doesn't organise anyone to come and feed their cat?
Fuckwit.
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Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 11 Dec 2007, 0:38,
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Yeah, cheers for that Wicca'd Witch.I can't remember what happened there - my ex-stepdaughter's friend usually looked after him while we were away, I can't think whether she forgot this time or left the food and didn't wonder why it wasn't being eaten.
Seriously though... I'm not fucking stupid, there's no way I'd leave a cat (even one I hated) for (nearly) a week without making sure there was someone to feed it.
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