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Keeping Ants Out Your Pet's Bowl


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December 21, 2010

Close of up dog food bowl with "Good Dog" design on it, surrounded by spilled kibble.Ants + dry cat food = trouble city. Setting dry cat food outside here in Arizona is an ant magnet (troops of them). To keep them out of kitty's food, I take a pie tin, set kitty cats bowl in center, then fill tin with water. Ants don't want to cross over, and the few that do don't make it - sorry guys! Now if you've got slugs and snails, well you know this wouldn't work -boy howdy- but, copper wire surrounding will.

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By Pamela Rochelle Woodworth from Sun Lakes, AZ

 
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April 4, 2018

I was getting ants around their food dishes. I read somewhere to put vinegar on cotton balls and place them around the food bowls (under food mat edges, etc.). Bingo no ants and pet safe!

 
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September 17, 2019

If you get ants in your pet's food bowls, try this. Set your pet's food bowl in a larger shallow bowl, like a pie pan. Fill half full with water (like a mote ), no more ants. It is simple, but it works. I have been doing this for 40yrs +. I change the mote water every day.

 
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July 20, 2010

Does anyone know how to get rid of the small ants? We have a cat and her food dish is in on the floor. Someone suggested you draw a chalk line around the dish and the ants won't cross it and get in the food. I put a piece of wood down and the bowl on top of it and drew a chalk line on the wood. It seemed to work for awhile, but now the ants are back in her food. How else can I stop them from getting in her food? I want to use a homemade remedy that really works. Thank you.

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By Linda Delcamp from Brighton, MI

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July 20, 20100 found this helpful

Yesterday there was a post here on thrifty fun about uses for used coffee grinds. One of the tips may work for your question.

 

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July 22, 20100 found this helpful

I put water in a container then put the dog dish in that.

 

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July 22, 20100 found this helpful

Thanks for all the answers but the question was how to get rid of ants in my cat's food bowl. I did try the one where you put water in a container and put the dish on top of it.

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So far, it is working.

 
July 25, 20100 found this helpful

Sweet 'n low and Nutra Sweet really worked to eliminate my ants. They apparently carry it back to the nest.

 
July 27, 20100 found this helpful

Sprinkle a circle around the bowl of talcum powder. Ants will not cross it.

 

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July 27, 20100 found this helpful

If the chalk line around the bowl worked the first time, try it again. Keep re-newing the chalk line. Possibly what ever is keeping the ants away from it is drying out or disappearing is some way.

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It's worth a try.

 
July 27, 20101 found this helpful

I have cats and dogs. My house was built on what used to be orange groves and I was told that I would always have an ant problem. I put the food bowls inside a container of water, such as a container lid or a large tray. This works great. While I still have an ant problem, the pets don't.

 
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April 14, 20161 found this helpful

I put my dogs food in a ice cream container it worked

 
May 28, 20170 found this helpful

Sprinkle baby powder around dish
They won't walk thru powder

 
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December 21, 2010

We get ants when we leave our cat food on the floor. Since the food is in the laundry room, I put a non-skid rug on the dryer and put the cat food on the dryer.

 
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July 20, 2010

How do you keep ants out of dog food?

 
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April 29, 2010

I used to have problems with ants in the dog bowl until I tried this. Wash the area where the bowl was with soapy water. This destroys the ant trail scent.

 
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