DD just ate a spider.

[Caenea]

FFS.

She's crawling round the floor, exploring. I turned my back for TWO SECONDS. When I turned round again, she was sitting very still, and there was something in her hand. I only hoovered an hour ago, while she was napping, so I was rather about this, as I didn't think she could have anything. However, I approached her to check, and said "show me" and she held out her fist. Spider. Only an itty-bitty one (money spider I think).

I HATE spiders with a passion. So, shuddering slightly, I reached for her hand, at which point she shoved it, and Mr Spider, into her gob.

Please can someone give my head a wobble and tell me that A) Mr Spider is not poisonous, and B) She does not require medical attention.

She's 1.

If anything it's probably healthy right?

My eldest ate a spider, a snail and cat biscuits. Which other than mini cheddars and wotsits were the only things she ate for 12 months,

My youngest, well....if she could catch it she ate it. The slug will forever haunt me. As will her sucking my big toe one day (I stopped that sharpish)

Ds1 tried a live woodlouse once. He pulled an awful face and spat the wriggly thing out. Ds2 just yesterday grabbed some disgusting stuff in the garden and shoved it in his mouth before I could get to him. Luckily he also had a bite of a soap bar the other day so it's all good.
Yabu for saying 'gob' though.

I had assumed from your thread title that you were advertising her spider eating services for hire

For what it's worth I think I would pay up to £20 for an hour of her time, probably 3 times a week initially until the spiders learn to fear her then dial it back to 1 or 2.

Bet if she was sitting in her highchair she'd have refused to eat it! (Or have you not reached that stage yet?)

My DS is dreadful for eating cat litter -as in the grey pumice stone stuff. No matter how much hoovering we do the cats still seem to spread it and as soon as he spots it he swoops! But give him cheese on toast when he actually wanted toast with pieces of cheese and oh no!

Can't believe that mine is the only child who used to try to swallow cigarette butts from the street. (And apparently eating tobacco, as opposed to swallowing it, is poisonous, but don't know if there's much left in a butt.)

OP, just remember, she won't die till she gets to the horse anyway.

She eats anything and everything. She is not fussy in the slightest. My mother declares she has hollow legs.

For those asking if they can borrow her, if you're within West Yorkshire, I can bring her round. She'll also eat the dust bunnies under the furniture if she can get her hands on them and you aren't quite fast enough.

Ohhhh colonel that is an outstanding business idea!!!