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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Oh, I just thought of another oneWhen I was about 9, my friend and I went out searching for slugs in the garden after a particularly rainy afternoon.
I know what you're thinking. Salt, right? Naturally... but we'd already done that so many times, so decided to spice things up a little.
We picked up a slug - with twigs.. didn't want to touch the slimy thing. Put it on an old plate, and took it indoors.
We covered the plate with a smaller plate - made of glass, so as to form a protective compartment - and put the ensemble in the microwave.
SPLANG!
It's a good thing we thought to cover the slug, otherwise the microwave would have been rendered less than usable in the future.
Ahh.. fun times.
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That's horrid.Really horrid. Just because an animal can't scream doesn't mean it can't feel pain. The poor thing would have been boiled from the inside out.
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Bob Todd whee, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 11:45,
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Bob ToddActually, that's not true. While it would undoubtedly have suffered a horrible death, microwaves heat from the outside in like any other electromagnetic radiation absorption process. The difference is that because the wavelength of microwaves is far longer than infrared radiation (like you would get from a grill for instance), the fall off in absorption is much slower, so the inside gets almost as much radiation as the outside.
With infrared, the vast majority of the radiation is absorbed in the outer layers of the food, falling off exponentially as it penetrates further. So the outer layers burn, while the inside relies mostly on conduction to transfer heat form the outside and cook the bulk of the food.
/labcoat
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 12 Dec 2007, 12:04,
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