Hesperus
Warren Veteran
I was in a garden centre earlier, investigating hamster accessories, when I saw two boys, aged about 9 (no idea why they weren't at school) being stupid around the hamsters. One boy in particular kept deliberately touching the glass although it said not to and then putting his mouth onto the glass and being generally unpleasant. Luckily the hamsters were all inside their houses. He also kept trying to knock the glass but I glared at him until he left.
I then went off into a separate fish tank section, just around the corner from the rabbits and hamsters. The stupid boy came back, alone, sneaked over to the rabbit enclosure, half climbed in and deliberately screamed AAAAARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH into the ear of one of the rabbits that was flopped out. Well, as you can imagine, I was furious. I shouted EXCUSE ME, which made him jump because I couldn't be seen from the fish tanks :lol::lol: and went over to him and told him off good and proper. I then told him to get back to his parents THAT INSTANT and he ran away. I have no idea where his parents were,they obviously weren't even in the indoors bit of the garden centre.
Anyway, what an unpleasant child. I know children are often silly and make mistakes but he was obviously looking to be deliberately unkind to the animals. I'm sure his behaviour won't change, sadly, but perhaps he might think twice about misbehaving in public the next time.
I really despair for the future sometimes. I might contact the garden centre and see if they can put up some sort of mesh over the top of the rabbits to offer more protection, they are generally quite caring of the animals there.
I then went off into a separate fish tank section, just around the corner from the rabbits and hamsters. The stupid boy came back, alone, sneaked over to the rabbit enclosure, half climbed in and deliberately screamed AAAAARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH into the ear of one of the rabbits that was flopped out. Well, as you can imagine, I was furious. I shouted EXCUSE ME, which made him jump because I couldn't be seen from the fish tanks :lol::lol: and went over to him and told him off good and proper. I then told him to get back to his parents THAT INSTANT and he ran away. I have no idea where his parents were,they obviously weren't even in the indoors bit of the garden centre.
Anyway, what an unpleasant child. I know children are often silly and make mistakes but he was obviously looking to be deliberately unkind to the animals. I'm sure his behaviour won't change, sadly, but perhaps he might think twice about misbehaving in public the next time.
I really despair for the future sometimes. I might contact the garden centre and see if they can put up some sort of mesh over the top of the rabbits to offer more protection, they are generally quite caring of the animals there.