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| 1609.1 | | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif. | Tue Aug 02 1988 17:46 | 6 |
| I believe that if you can "interrupt" the trail of the ants you have
some chance of success. There are a number of ant colonies in my
yard, and occasionally I will find a line of them in the house.
I wipe them up and clean the trail area with wet paper towels,
and use Raid outside the house wherever they were getting in.
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| 1609.2 | some thoughts on this | SKITZD::WILDE | Time and Tide wait for Norman | Tue Aug 02 1988 17:49 | 11 |
| Ants carry the ant trap bait back to the nest when they get it, they would
not be infesting the food with it.
If you are feeding canned food, I use the "eat now or lose it" technique
of feeding Nicky his canned food so I don't have ants or other cats getting
it. I offer the food to him several times each evening and once each
morning...as long as he is actively eating, the dish stays down - when he
stops eating and moves away, it gets taken up, the leftover food stored
in a plastic container in the fridge, and the dish is cleaned. We don't
get ants in the Science Diet kibble if I use the ant stakes around the
OUTSIDE of the windows.
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| 1609.3 | Jim Easson says... | JULIET::CORDESBRO_JO | | Tue Aug 02 1988 21:17 | 9 |
| I recently heard on a local radio talk show (KGO for you west-coasters)
that ants will not cross a chalk line. Several people called up
to say that they had tried it and it worked.
Maybe you could draw a chalk circle around your cats food dish.
Sounds kinda crazy but it might work.
Jo
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| 1609.4 | | SKETCH::BASSETT | Design | Wed Aug 03 1988 08:30 | 10 |
| I agree with .2
Don't leave left overs on the floor. I had problems with ants getting
into Asia's moist food that was left on the floor. I thought once
they are in my apt they will never leave--they do leave once the
food is gone. I feed her can food in the morning right after I
get up and if she hasn't finished eating by the time I leave for
work then she looses it. I think she prefers dry food anyway....
Linda
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| 1609.5 | how I keep ants from cat food | HUMOR::EPPES | Make 'em laugh | Wed Aug 03 1988 19:33 | 33 |
| I saw an "insect prevention" dish in one of the pet supply catalogs
(mentioned in another note). For a lot of money you can buy a dish
under which is a reservoir that you fill with salt water. The part
containing the food is raised above this reservoir, thus creating a
sort of moat that ants would have to cross to be able to climb up the
dish into the food. Ants are reluctant to do this.
I have an ant problem when I leave Jasper's food dish out on the deck.
(I keep him on the deck in nice weather when we're not home because
he has an unfortunate tendency to use the carpet as his litterbox
[story is in a note way back]. The deck is about 5-1/2 feet off the
ground and has no stairs to the ground, so he can be left there without
my worrying that he'll run off into the woods.) Rather than spend big
bucks on one of those fancy dishes, I sort of concocted one of my own.
I put salty water in a shallow plastic plate. On the plate (in the
water) I place a small bowl, facing up. On top of this bowl, I place
Jasper's food dish. The food dish fits right into the plastic bowl,
which raises it an inch or so above the water in the plate underneath.
Ants can't get to the food dish because it is raised off the floor and
surrounded by water.
Here is a poor attempt at illustrating what I'm talking about:
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/ \ <--food dish
+----------+
\____/ <--bowl underneath, holding dish up
|~~~~~~~~| <--plate containing salty water
Luckily we don't have an ant problem in the house (knock on wood!).
-- Nina
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