A tiger moth.

[xiphias]

Maybe a five-inch wingspan. Gorgeous moth. Banging against one of our windows battering itself trying to get out.

I caught it, showed it to the cat to see if she wanted to eat it, then, when she responded too slowly, put it out the kitchen window. It flew away, glittering.

It's a very, very small life I saved. No mind to speak of. But it's alive.

Comments

[noddpot.livejournal.com]

You say it was one small life saved.

But you were also prepared to give it to the cat to eat.....

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Certainly. I dislike meaningless death. But if the cat chose to hunt and eat it, that's not meaningless.

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

If your cat's anything like the ones I've had, if she had decided to eat it she would have ended up vomiting it back up wherever it would've been least convenient for you. Which would, of course, have made it back into a meaningless death, wouldn't you say?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Actually, moths she eats and keeps down. That's about the only thing she successfully hunts and eats, though.

[noddpot.livejournal.com]

Im not treading on your toes on what you choose to do with an creature, but you purposely gave the cat an option to kill it when otherwise if the cat wasnt around you would have just let it go, I just found that really bizarre.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The cat's more important than the moth.

In fact, the cat's ENJOYMENT is more important than the moth.

However, the moth is not without value.

[noddpot.livejournal.com]

Personally I dont think enjoyment can be superior to a life.
If the cat was starving and needed that moth I think it's be more appropriate to offer it to the cat in that instance.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Umm. How does your catching the moth and offering it to Boopsie qualify as Boopsie hunting the moth? More feline psychic control, along the lines of sleepy-ons?

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention big moths. A few days ago I developed a roll of film I found while cleaning my room, and on it is a photo of a big-ass moth. Like, sparrow sized. It's a little washed out from the flash on the camera, but it's a photo of a moth in flight, right in the middle of the frame. I'd have gotten big points in Pokemon Snap. I'm checking out pictures, and I don't think it's a tiger moth though.