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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Reminded of this story by Chickenlady's postMy dad's a farmer, as I have mentioned.
Over the years numerous wee beasties have run the wrong way when the combine approaches; foxes, rabbits, partridges. Normally dad tries to avoid them, mostly because of the mess they make on the combine table (that's the big rotaty-bladey-bit on the front).
This year a particularly dense pheasant popped up infront of dad and before he could slow down he rolled over it.
Dad got out to remove the expected bloody mass of feathers only to see the pheasant sat on the knife (that's a large side-to-side sawblade that cuts the corn stalks). Only it wasn't 'sat' on it... the knife had take it's legs off...
Dad said the funny thing was, the pheasant didn't seem to have noticed, as it just gave him a querying look as he picked it up and wrung it's neck.
Like I said; Dad didn't *mean* to hit it.
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Evilscary Human, human, human; just look at my neck!, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 13:30,
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