Caution Animals, Kids On Patrol

InkSlinger67

Recently, I bumped into an old school friend who was famous for accidentally killing his goldfish by pouring 2 litres of milk into an aquarium because he thought they were bored of drinking water. Granted he was only 8 or 9 at the time but still guilty of murdering those poor fish.

I am also guilty of this crime. When I was 11, I was given the responsibility of minding a neighbour's dog while they were on holiday. When feeding the dog one day I knocked over a packet of slug pellets which the dog horsed through behind my back. I didn't think much about it at the time as I was young and didn't think they would harm anything but slugs. When I went to check on the dog a few hours later I found him dead out the back garden underneath a rose bush. ABSOLUTE DISASTER!

Since meeting my old school chum I got thinking this must have happened to an awful lot of people when they were young and innocent to the ways of the world. My question is, have you or anyone you know ever innocently injured/killed an animal or stepped in at the last moment before a kid done something similar?

The focus of this thread is on the innocence of the act itself and not intentional cruelty to animals. I still feel a lot of guilt for that poor dog almost 20 years later and I'm sure my buddy still cringes at the thought of those poor fish too. I would NEVER intentionally hurt an animal.

MagicMarker

I hear serial killers had a tendency to kill animals in their youth.

Mr. CooL ICE

MagicMarker wrote:

I hear serial killers had a tendency to kill animals in their youth.

When I was younger, I almost killed my cousin's dog by hitting him full force in the head with a steel baseball bat (we were playing rounders and he decided to chase the ball after it was pitched). He went unconscious for about 10 seconds, but then just jumped up and continued running around

This hasn't really made me a serial killer, except that I have murdered 6 people (7 if you include the unborn child) in various armed robberies.

TPD

A friend of mine used to live in a very backwards part of Donegal with an old fashioned grandfather, and apparently when he was younger he squeezed a chick until it's guts came out it's arse. Not sure if that was intentional.

I'm pretty sure the grandfather hanged a goat because he was angry at it's owner though.

shenanigans1982

This one time I put some fruit on a piece of wood hoping to attract a mouse so a piece of steel would come crashing down and break its neck....still do it every now and again for kicks.

Me to you

I was told to clean my goldfish tank when i was younger, but i was in a bit of a rush as i wanted to go play camogie, so i decided to just poor some detol into the tank, kills 99% of bacteria and goldfish instantly... Oooops! Rip salt and pepper.

Clare Bear

No. I wasn't a stupid/evil kid.

AnonoBoy

Bah! Killing pets if for amateurs. I read the Wasp Factory when I was young and picked up loads of great ideas......

Tar.Aldarion

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Recently, I bumped into an old school friend who was famous for accidentally killing his goldfish by pouring 2 litres of milk into an aquarium because he thought they were bored of drinking water. Granted he was only 8 or 9 at the time but still guilty of murdering those poor fish.

I am also guilty of this crime. When I was 11, I was given the responsibility of minding a neighbour's dog while they were on holiday. When feeding the dog one day I knocked over a packet of slug pellets which the dog horsed through behind my back. I didn't think much about it at the time as I was young and didn't think they would harm anything but slugs. When I went to check on the dog a few hours later I found him dead out the back garden underneath a rose bush. ABSOLUTE DISASTER!

Since meeting my old school chum I got thinking this must have happened to an awful lot of people when they were young and innocent to the ways of the world. My question is, have you or anyone you know ever innocently injured/killed an animal or stepped in at the last moment before a kid done something similar?

The focus of this thread is on the innocence of the act itself and not intentional cruelty to animals. I still feel a lot of guilt for that poor dog almost 20 years later and I'm sure my buddy still cringes at the thought of those poor fish too. I would NEVER intentionally hurt an animal.

Enjoy your turkey?


Gobble

InkSlinger67

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Enjoy your turkey?


Gobble

Rest easy my horse radish eating friend, I've cut out a lot of meat from my diet in recent years. I no longer eat any pork products and haven't had a steak in months

Turkey is the one meat I have on a fairly regular basis actually and i'll not be guilted out of that!

Tar.Aldarion

But damn it I'll try! Lol...

Rest easy my horse radish eating friend

jane86

A friend of mine strangled a kitten to death! She said she thought she was just holding it (by the neck!). She was under 10 yrs old. :mad:

rhapsody!

When I was about 7 we had really young kittens, and they were left run around the kitchen under supervision. Anyway I was in the kitchen with my mum and sis and I didn't notice one behind me and I walked backwards and stood on it. >.< It was still alive and didn't seem hurt at all, but I still feel really bad today.

Quackles

I seem to recall my father telling me how he slammed a door on his budgie as it was flying free around the house when he was young.. Poor birdie.

My mother has a photo of me at about the age of two trying to squash a cat with a rolling pin. Kitty survived, as did I, and a couple of months later, karma bit me on the ass, was playing with the same rolling pin, fell forward and banged my face on the floor!!

darling.x

When i was young a man down the road had two vicious dogs who were always loose. Walking two a from school was a nightmare. When i was 10, one of the dogs came out and went for my leg. I grabbed a rock from a wall and threw it at the dogs head. He died not long afterwards, and the other dog quiten down.

I caught a child peeing into a bucket of tadpoles years ago. Don't know what happened to the tadpoles.

Quazzie

When I was younger me and a few friends found a cat that looked to be on deaths door. I was covered in a tar/oil substance and was staggering and barely able to walk. We weighed up the consequences and decided that since it was nearly dead we would put it out of its obvious misery and finish it off. We rock-paper-scissored and I lost. I walked up to it, heart thumping in my chest, grabbed it by the tail and swung it.

SLAP!!! it went off the rock. SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! I must have swung that cat about fifteen times. We left it alone lying beside the rock in what he thought was a dead state and went on our merry way with a feeling of dread, but good doing in our minds.

All this happened on a path way through a park tha only really kids used and about fiftenn minutes later we returned along that path only to see no remains of the cat. We looked up along the path only to see the rear of the cat disappear around a turn.

Either one of two things happened that day. 1. We very nearly battered an innocent perfectly healthy cat to death and still couldn't kill it. or 2. It was proven that cats do have nine lives.

Either way I've never killed an animal, but it wasn't from lack of trying.

darling.x

darling.x wrote: »

Walking two a from school was a nightmare.

Sorry spelling mistake there - supposed to read to and from school.

ejmaztec

darling.x wrote: »

Sorry spelling mistake there - supposed to read to and from school.

You must have spent more time coming from school instead of going to.:P