That's so mean! Regardless if it was fake icecream or not, I'm sure the cat didn't like having to go through that. I once saw an episode of an America TV show about some young girl who was a witch or something (I THINK it was called Sabrina) and there was a black cat in there that they treated so bad! One person would lift him/her up and just swing or throw the cat over to another person and it was obvious the cat was scared