My dogs love cicadas.
It’s like an Easter egg hunt the way they go after the dead ones. Hilbert was an expert at finding them.
We were out walking one late summer morning when Hilbert was
just over a year old. A cicada landed on
the ground near Hilbert. He quickly
grabbed it up in his mouth. Suddenly, it
started buzzing. He spat it out, jumped
back, barked at it for a while -as if to scold it for startling him- and then grabbed it up again. After one crunch,
the buzzing stopped and Hilbert swallowed it.
After that the fresh ones became his favorites.
The vet says that cicadas are a cheap and healthy source of protein
for dogs. Who says there’s no such thing
as a free lunch?
