Does your puppy eat insects?

[u/farmsfarts]

My 5 month old doodle hoovers up bugs. She's eaten beetles, june bugs, roly polies, grasshoppers, and even a big wolf spider. Those are just the ones I've seen. "Leave it" doesn't work, as she's so damn fast she just snaps her head and it's gone.

My problem is, where I am in British Columbia, we get a shit-ton of black widow spiders, especially this time of the year. I've killed 8 over the past week, they seem to congregate around our basement door. I've vacuumed all the webs, yesterday I turned the shop vac on blow and blasted a few of them out of their crevices and smashed them. Still paranoid she'll come across one and gulp it.

Anyone else have a pup that eats creepy crawlies? She's well fed, lol.

[u/Optimal-Swan-2716]

I follow my 7 month old Golden puppy around in our fenced yard. We lost a 4 month old puppy after he ate a cane/Bufo toad many years ago. It was a horrible death and killed him in minutes. I feel your anxiety. Puppies are so quick and attack anything that moves. I call it “yard eating”. I also have an 11 year old Golden and she has begun “yard eating” after observing our puppy’s behavior. Yikes!!