Have you nearly killed a beloved pet???!!!
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creationracing said:
My neighbour had a tractor / sheepdog incident that didn't end well. Also know of someone who hoovered up their budgie. s
tty thing to happen.
When I was a kid we had a dog that jumped out the back window of the tractor my Dad was driving. To be squished by the trailer it was pulling.tty thing to happen.Unfortunately sounds quite common.
Does wanting to kill an annoying pet count?
We used to have a much loved chicken when I was a kid. Name was Dimelsa. Nothing seemed to bother it much, except me and my water pistol.
Apparently I used to get great enjoyment from squirting it whilst she was locked in her run and had no where to hide. Not surprisingly, the chicken HATED this.
One day, I went to go squirt the chicken but hadn't realised the door to the run was open. This chicken must've had a lot of pent up anger, because the moment I squirted it, and it realised there was no barrier between us, it totally lost it.
It chased me round the garden, both of us screaming. Had the bright idea of running into the kitchen to lose it because the chicken never ever ventured in there. Nope, ran straight in after me. Through the hall and up the stairs I went, with the chicken in hot pursuit, only for me to run out of steam half way up. I turned to face it and it pecked me on my hands (drawing blood) as I tried to fend it off. At this point mum intervened and shooed it away.
The chicken passed away in its sleep that night, and despite me being only 4 at the time, I still get the blame for killing Dimelsa.
Apparently I used to get great enjoyment from squirting it whilst she was locked in her run and had no where to hide. Not surprisingly, the chicken HATED this.
One day, I went to go squirt the chicken but hadn't realised the door to the run was open. This chicken must've had a lot of pent up anger, because the moment I squirted it, and it realised there was no barrier between us, it totally lost it.
It chased me round the garden, both of us screaming. Had the bright idea of running into the kitchen to lose it because the chicken never ever ventured in there. Nope, ran straight in after me. Through the hall and up the stairs I went, with the chicken in hot pursuit, only for me to run out of steam half way up. I turned to face it and it pecked me on my hands (drawing blood) as I tried to fend it off. At this point mum intervened and shooed it away.
The chicken passed away in its sleep that night, and despite me being only 4 at the time, I still get the blame for killing Dimelsa.
bexVN said:
That makes no sense. It would've urinated in panic I'm sure but unless it was trapped in the bag for 2-3 days or if it was scorchingly hot it would not have dehydrated.
Fact is the cat died, and it wasn't trapped in the bag for days neither. It was soaking wet when son found it. So no, it doesnt take serveral days of entrapment in a bag. It was alive and well when went to work early that daylenats31 said:
bexVN said:
That makes no sense. It would've urinated in panic I'm sure but unless it was trapped in the bag for 2-3 days or if it was scorchingly hot it would not have dehydrated.
Fact is the cat died, and it wasn't trapped in the bag for days neither. It was soaking wet when son found it. So no, it doesnt take serveral days of entrapment in a bag. It was alive and well when went to work early that daylukeyman said:
When I was a kid we had a dog that jumped out the back window of the tractor my Dad was driving. To be squished by the trailer it was pulling.
Unfortunately sounds quite common.
Does wanting to kill an annoying pet count?
Had a similar thing on the way home with my 4 month old Husky from a rescue centre.I had opened the rear window a bit so she was sticking her head out.I had her collar attached to the rear seatbelt.Next thing i knew there was a bloody horrendous high pitched squeal,i look around and there was the seat belt and the lead heading out the window!!!Luckily i was only going over a speed bump really slowly but i was convinced she had gone under the car.Unfortunately sounds quite common.
Does wanting to kill an annoying pet count?
I quickly but tentatively pulled up and looked out the front door,there she was hanging by her neck,poor little sod,what must she be thinking her first day in my ownership and this happens!!She had just twisted her leg a little,half an hour later she was fine after a big cuddle! ;-)
did what Bex did, but to a Russian hamster 
I felt sick for days...in fact i still feel awful about it now
I was also, very unfairly in my view, blamed for the death of next doors cat. 2 stupid housemates took to feeding next doors cat and inviting it into our house despite being told by everyone else not to. Housemates decided to have New Years party and some bright spark decided to prop open my door (which was weighted to shut) Cat had never been in my room. cat decided large yellow thing in tank looked interesting. I get panicked phone call at 2:00am which basically went "oh god, your python is eating scratch, what should we do??" my answer of "nothing" wasn't well received. im still cross about that one
I felt sick for days...in fact i still feel awful about it now I was also, very unfairly in my view, blamed for the death of next doors cat. 2 stupid housemates took to feeding next doors cat and inviting it into our house despite being told by everyone else not to. Housemates decided to have New Years party and some bright spark decided to prop open my door (which was weighted to shut) Cat had never been in my room. cat decided large yellow thing in tank looked interesting. I get panicked phone call at 2:00am which basically went "oh god, your python is eating scratch, what should we do??" my answer of "nothing" wasn't well received. im still cross about that one
a work colleague had a budgie as a child that was only to be let out under adult supervision. Showing off to her mate one night she let out the budgie, her sister came home opened the lounge door and was screamed at to 'shut it! quick!' She did, sadly budgie was midway through it at the time.
My son killed Mother in Laws budgie as well. It used to fly free and sit on the sofa. Aged 3 son ran in the room and dived to sit on the sofa, budgie was already there. He sat on it. It did survive the ordeal but died later that night.
My son killed Mother in Laws budgie as well. It used to fly free and sit on the sofa. Aged 3 son ran in the room and dived to sit on the sofa, budgie was already there. He sat on it. It did survive the ordeal but died later that night.
A couple of years ago we had friends staying over - 4 of them. The spare room was full so two of them had our sofa bed (a folding spring metal frame type). The next morning I put the sofa bed away to make more space in the living room. That evening I commented to my wife that I'd not seen Jack, one of our 2 cats, all day long. Almost straight away I had a horrible feeling about the sofa bed, looked at the wife, told her what I thought, she ran out of the room in tears electing to see a mangled cat inside the bed. I opened the bed out again, and out jumped the cat and ran off. Wife burst out crying and I just felt like the worst pet owner ever. I folded the bed back up to see what space was left and there was no more than about 4 inches between the folded frame and the back of the sofa!! Poor cat had been stuck in there for about 8hrs with barely enough room to breathe. We caught up with him a bit later and there didn't seem to be any damage, but wife took him to the vets the next day just to get a check-up. Not a pleasant experience though, but the bloody cats are so inquisitive and so quiet we often end up shutting them in rooms and cupboards, fortunately they'll usually make a racket once they realise they're stuck.
EDIT: forgot to add that many years ago (~25 or so) our parents bought us a pet guinea pig. My youngest brother was only about 5 years old. He was beside himself with excitement, and when he was allowed to hold the guinea pig he just sort of crushed the poor thing to death. My mom and dad were asking him to let go, but he'd kind of gone onto autopilot. It was very odd, but we didn't realise at the time. My dad finally prized his hand open and said we should let the guinea pig rest because it was tired. The next day the guinea pig "went to the vet for a check-up", and then surprisingly he had to "go back to the pet shop because he was ill". Being so young we didn't really get it at the time, and promptly forgot about the Guinea Pig. Our parents waited a few more years before we had another pet (a slightly more robust lakeland terrier, who was an absolute legend of a dog, which we all loved - but didn't "love it to death"!).
Also, my youngest brother is now 31 and is a completely normal person, in case I made him sound like a loon!!
EDIT: forgot to add that many years ago (~25 or so) our parents bought us a pet guinea pig. My youngest brother was only about 5 years old. He was beside himself with excitement, and when he was allowed to hold the guinea pig he just sort of crushed the poor thing to death. My mom and dad were asking him to let go, but he'd kind of gone onto autopilot. It was very odd, but we didn't realise at the time. My dad finally prized his hand open and said we should let the guinea pig rest because it was tired. The next day the guinea pig "went to the vet for a check-up", and then surprisingly he had to "go back to the pet shop because he was ill". Being so young we didn't really get it at the time, and promptly forgot about the Guinea Pig. Our parents waited a few more years before we had another pet (a slightly more robust lakeland terrier, who was an absolute legend of a dog, which we all loved - but didn't "love it to death"!).
Also, my youngest brother is now 31 and is a completely normal person, in case I made him sound like a loon!!
Edited by TeaNoSugar on Friday 3rd April 13:41
Fed my Doberman grapes as a treat, all my other dogs have loved them and never had problems (this is before I knew they were poisonous to dogs). I wondered why he was doing horrendous bloody stinking poo's in the garden, took him to the vet and he was in there for two days on a drip.
Beau, I'm so so sorry.
I'm not proud.
Beau, I'm so so sorry.
I'm not proud.
CharlieCrocodile said:
Fed my Doberman grapes as a treat, all my other dogs have loved them and never had problems (this is before I knew they were poisonous to dogs). I wondered why he was doing horrendous bloody stinking poo's in the garden, took him to the vet and he was in there for two days on a drip.
Beau, I'm so so sorry.
I'm not proud.
Aww, he was lucky and was ok in the end, that's what counts. We fed our first dog grapes, had no idea, luckily only ever one every now and then because it was a laugh watching her trying to nibble the skin off the grape!!Beau, I'm so so sorry.
I'm not proud.
We're moving house in a couple of weeks and the new house has a lovely grapevine over the patio, one of my first jobs will be to cut that down
For my own part, When I was a teenager I gad a tiny fish tank with white cloud mountain minnows, one day one of them jumped out and I found it by treading on it. Fortunately I was barefoot, so I noticed and popped it back in the tank. It was fine, amazingly.
I also managed to cut a chunk of skin off one of our cats while trimming off matted fur. That resulted in a trip to the vets.
For my own part, When I was a teenager I gad a tiny fish tank with white cloud mountain minnows, one day one of them jumped out and I found it by treading on it. Fortunately I was barefoot, so I noticed and popped it back in the tank. It was fine, amazingly.
I also managed to cut a chunk of skin off one of our cats while trimming off matted fur. That resulted in a trip to the vets.
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