tell me i'm not horrible...

[PlayaMama]

i keep encouraging my ds to keep the caterpillars we find in the garden in jars with a fresh kale leaf, inevitably he forgets about them and they die.

i feel sort of bad, but i guess i could be squishing them outright... i'm not sure what's worse for my karma?

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

Well in the grand sceem of things I'm sure there are much worse things you could be doing. However I think that you, as the adult, need to take charge of any creatures you bring into your home and make sure they are cared for.

[PlayaMama]

yeah, i guess it is setting a bad precedent.

he's just so gentle and gets really upset that i hate to kill them. but they're eating my kale!

[reducereuserecycle]

could you all relocate them to a spot that is far from the kale?

[PlayaMama]

i tried to get them to live in the amish deer tongue aka grossest-lettuce-ever-that-totally-over-winters-here patch and the amish deer tongue is still bright and happy. even the freaking bugs don't like that stuff.

i actually think that he's about done with it, today i suggested he might like to watch the caterpillar in a jar and he didn't want to because they eventually die. of course, then i discreetly squished it but i guess at least he's not learning neglect?