I’ve been there. The youngest step-daughter played the game of pretending she had a fish to get the dolphin to come over and then laugh and show the dolphin she didn’t have a fish and say the dolphin was stupid. Dolphins are nice but they come from the big, bad ocean. In the big, bad ocean life oftentimes comes down to whether you have the smarts, physical ability and strength to get something to eat. You can starve to death in the ocean or get so weak that a shark can finish you off. I told my step-daughter these facts and that what she was doing was cruel to the dolphin. She gave me her typical dazed chimp look, so I grabbed her and held her by the ankle over the dolphin pool while I yelled, “Come and get it, Flipper! It’s chow time!” She still won’t send me a birthday present.
You are the blacksheep in that family, aren't you?
Good for you. She was being cruel to the dolphin, and she got a right come-uppance. Cruelty should be nipped in the bud and roundly rejected.