Wow, Lily just ate a huge moth - and puked!

[pomtzu]

I always thought the Luna moth was rather pretty - compared to some other varieties, that is.

We don't often get any in the house - however - crickets are another story. My son's girls just love to eat them, but leave the legs on the kitchen floor. Cricket season is just around the corner, so they'll be in their glory soon.

Kirsten - do you have crickets in your little corner of the world?

[Barbara]

While we have crickets here I never had one in the house. Filou also ate moths and he didn't puke. But I caught him one day with a moth in his mouth that was too big for him. A wing stuck out and it was humming frantically in Filou's mouth- I first had no idea whether he tried to swallow a mobile or something vibrating I opened his little mouth and it flew away.
Maybe Lily ate that thing to produce the hairball

[Kirsten]

Yup, that's right, we do have crickets (could hear them all night last week), but they do not come into the house.

Anyway, Lily is fine, she kept the second bug and her food down last night, so I figure the first one was just too big for her. Lily can be such a silly girl sometimes...


kirsten

[orangemm]

Archy sometimes catches flies or flying bugs and eats them. Gross! It's amazing how he does it. Last year I remember a fly was in our bedroom and he walked in, made one leap and that was it! We were astounded.

I don't think I would like to eat anything that would make me puke!

[katladyd]

For some reason, crickets are considered a delicacy by some cats. Except the legs, pomtzu is right, the legs are always left behind.

[Kirsten]

These crickets must be tasty! LOL

Re. the legs: I'm also finding lots of bug legs here lately, so the kitties definitely know how to seperate them from the body.

BTW, found a dead wasp here on the floor yesterday, wonder if one of my girls had killed it. If so, they are lucky that they didn't got stung! This could have gone seriously wrong!