I have a friend of sorts whom I have known for a long time. I find that she is sometimes quite selfish in the way she treats others, and she is almost definitely a narcissist.
However, we share similar hobbies and she can be very fun to hang out with, so I’ve stuck around.
Rabbit
About half a year ago, she decided to get a rabbit on impulse. I was surprised as she never really showed a great deal of interest in animals, but then again she is fickle and prone to having such “phases”. It was the cutest little thing ever, all fluff and giant ears with a little waggling bobtail. I played with it only a couple times when I visited, but I loved the little bunny to bits.
Last week, I met her for coffee and I asked her how her rabbit was doing. She casually mentioned that it had died some time ago without even batting an eyelid.
Mortified, I asked what had happened and she said that she had been leaving the bunny out on her bare concrete balcony most days as she didn’t like having fur all over the house, and one evening she came home and it was “just laying there dead”. The poor wretched thing had literally been baked to death in the scorching 35 degree heat!
As distressing as the news was, what I found the most disturbing was her complete lack of guilt -or any kind of emotion at all- that she had basically murdered a helpless living thing out of willful negligence. She brushed right over the subject like it was just some idle gossip, leaving me utterly speechless.
I feel like I can no longer associate myself with someone with such sociopathic tendencies and I have been avoiding her since that day. I also can’t help but think of how much the rabbit must have suffered before it died. I even considered reporting her anonymously to the SPCA for animal cruelty, but it’s too late for that. RIP little sweet angel.. I hope you’re in bunny heaven now, wherever that may be.