Well, all kinds of moral considerations go through your mind in a situation like that.
There were no moral considerations at this moment in Mark's mind.
Any moral consideration of animals is in relation to humans.
For this reason, they would exclude other animals from moral consideration.
The killing floor wasn't a place for careful moral consideration.
This is not to exempt the cat's behavior from moral consideration.
Likewise deep ecology brought the whole of nature under moral consideration.
The longer you wait, the stronger the moral consideration becomes.
That is why, above and beyond the moral considerations, we cannot lose sight of these few factors.
Quite apart from moral considerations, there are at least three reasons why we should do so.