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04-05-2011, 11:35 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Royse City tx
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| Chasing and eating...BUGS!! She is for sure a hunter! LOL She spends most of her playtime outside chasing down daddy long legs. Not sure what their real name is, but she chases them down and eats them! This can't be good for her?! Maybe thats why she vomited last night?! Hmmm. Now that the June bugs are coming out she gets a thrill out of them too! Eewww! How can I put a stop to this? Any suggestions? There's not a ton of them flying around (prob cause she's ate them all ) but what there is she goes after. Hanging bug zapper maybe? She's SUPER fast also, and when I try to catch her to stop her, she just runs from me and we start a game of "catch me if you can"
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04-05-2011, 11:41 AM | #2 |
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| Moshe LOVES June Bugs!! Chasing them around and pawing at them is his favorite game. He eats his too!! I'm not sure they are totally "bad" for them. They are dogs after all and in the wild dogs eat all kinds off odd protein. I worry about him choking on them. They look pretty big and he is pretty small.
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04-05-2011, 11:50 AM | #3 | |
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Anything alive flying, crawling, etc peaks her interest and she WILL NOT stop until she has dominated it! Must be that typical terrier spirit! A Lion in a tiny little Yorkie body!
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04-05-2011, 01:35 PM | #4 |
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| I just caught Max pawing in the grass and I thought he was just digging for rocks. No, he's trying to smash a June bug. Great
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04-05-2011, 01:40 PM | #5 |
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| Princess can feel free to start exterminating at any time, however, daddy long legs are extremely poisonous to humans (or so I've heard), but they don't have big enough fangs or something to bite us, so i don't know if it's really dangerous for a dog or not.
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04-05-2011, 02:09 PM | #6 |
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| The only thing with bugs today is I worry that maybe they have just been in a yard recently treated with chemicals, pesticides and are about to die from that and then my dog comes along and eats them! Don't know if they were full of bad chemicals if that would be enough to hurt Tibbe but it worries me. Everyone in our neighborhood is so into pest-control, lawncare and weedkilling, etc., it does concern me. Haven't asked the vet about it yet but for now, I do keep Tibbe away from bugs - not that I hardly see any now days. I think this whole neighborhood is so debugged we never see anything except flies and some ants anymore! I don't remember the last time I saw a real bug of any kind. It is kind of scary in a way!
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04-05-2011, 03:42 PM | #7 |
My Tiny Treasures Donating Member | Ewwwwwww I just got chills reading this. Bugs creep me out! LOL |
04-05-2011, 04:19 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | The best thing I've been able to do is consistant, constant, continuous training on the 'leave it' command in a stern voice since she was a pup for anything that wasn't hers. She's learned that one really well, and she does great with it. The last two summers she's done great when we are blessed with all the bees & wasps around us. They are just too fascinating to leave them alone, but she actually got so she would just thinking about going after them, look at me, and change her own mind. I was sure happy about that as I didn't want to have to deal with her getting stung. I don't like her going after all the other creepies out there, but I know if I saw her going after something I could probably get her to 'leave it'. She is always in 'hunt' mode... even in the house. I told my son he needed to take her hunting with his beagle who doesn't get the hunt instinct so he could learn from her. Ha! LOL!!!
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04-09-2011, 08:32 AM | #9 | |
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But outside, he grazes in the grass endlessly and has the time of his life in his yard hunting first one thing and then the other.
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04-09-2011, 08:43 AM | #10 |
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| My yorkies dont do that my kittens do
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04-09-2011, 09:25 AM | #11 |
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| There only poisons if they bite you, but since they're too small they can't Yay! lol They used to try to get us to eat them at girl scout camp apparently they taste like mint, but there was no way I was putting a spider in my mouth more for them lol that's one experience I am glad to have passed on!
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04-09-2011, 10:18 AM | #12 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Royse City tx
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| Actually the show MythBusters did an episode about this. They found it to be a myth. I thought the same thing for years!
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04-09-2011, 10:27 AM | #13 |
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| Apple is allowed to catch, play with and eat 3 june bugs a night lol...However, I can't control how many lizards she gets, during the day on potty breaks...I take at least two out of her mouth, daily...She's an unbelievable hunter and stalks the lizards, crawling on her belly, like a snake, then catching them...She's incorrigible! But, iatyq, I don't think a few june bugs are harmful, and may even give some beneficial protein...who knows? |
04-09-2011, 11:07 AM | #14 | |
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Oh, good! That's a relief!! and also, if Princess grabs a bug she can have it! No way I could pull that thing out! Of course, my reaction would prob get her to drop it anyways!
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04-09-2011, 11:13 AM | #15 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: May 2009 Location: Bellflower, Ca, USA
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| Charlie eats everything he gets his paws on... I have to keep an eye on him.. I'm hoping he will grow out of this..lol I caught him chewing up a cricket the other day in the backyard.. ewww.. |
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