chaz:

Just as long as you didn't get her "hooked" on Bear, in HDTV no less.

I'm wondering if the "props dept." isn't providing him with chocolate that resembles scat; they might just be carving up Cadbury chocolate truffles in the shape of bugs and deer pellets and such. In fact, I think that last dragonfly he ate was on what looked like a tootsie-pop stick.