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Our last pair of dogs ate the crickets when they were puppies. The female continued to hunt them, and kill them, but she quit eating them as she got older.
Our current crop of dogs just ignore them. But lizards and toads are open to harass. He has killed a few of the lizards, or to be accurate, skinks. Most of the time the skinks get away. The toads just puff up and he pokes them with his nose a few times and gets a snort of the toxin toads produce and he backs off and barks. We have tiny little brown snakes that look like worms, only they have eyes, a mouth and a tongue. They actually eat earthworms. Anyway he will kill those if he can find one. The 4 foot long rat snake that came through the yard was just barked at.
Mice are open season. Rueben, the male is my early alert system for mice. They usually appear under the storage building. I put out traps and Ruben gets some and I get some and then the population goes away, which was my goal. I wish he would leave the skinks and snakes alone, but he will hunt anything in "his" backyard.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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