Over the weekend, we discovered ants upstairs. Not many, less than a dozen maybe. One is too many for Mom, as she lives by her saying that goes, “If you see one, you have a hundred.” Olivia, the nature-lover she is, spent a good portion of an afternoon watching the ants come and go from under a very heavy bookcase, never thinking to bother them as they went about their ant business, and thus, alerting us to the problem.
“Olivia, are you watching the ants, or are you eating them?” we asked.
Eat them? Ewww! Only crazy cats eat ants! I’m sitting here in this half-light admiring my reflection on this ant-crawling floor, if you must know. Eat them? Take your accusations elsewhere, Dad!
Meanwhile, ant-hunting, ant-eating Pia resided elsewhere.
Did someone insinuate I’m a crazy cat??
Later, we got the ant issue under control, somewhat, with fresh bait traps behind the heavy bookcase. And as it turned out, our next door neighbor had just had their property sprayed for ants the day before. Happens every time. *sigh*
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Our posts will be spotty this week as our computer backup is taking way much longer than anticipated. Or so Dad says. At least we know our data doesn’t have ants! Well, we’re pretty sure.
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2022 – No post
2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – Snow Day!
2018 – No post
2017 – Sunny Sunny
2016 – No post
2015 – Done with Winter
2014 – No post
2013 – Quint’s Spring 2013 Painting Process
2012 – I tell ya, I’m just exhausted
Oh dear! Now good to have ants running around the home.
Purrs they soon move on or get eaten by an ant eating cat 😉 MOL!!!!
Purrs, Julie
Ants are very resilient creatures; here’s hoping they’ve been purrsuaded to move somewhere else than Colehaus.
If you have the sugar ants, you can bait them with tiny piles of cornmeal. They eat it and can’t digest it, and die. It’s worth a try and bonus, cat safe.
Ants in the winter-oh no!
We used to have a big problem with them but, thank COD, we don’t anymore. Terro ant traps work really well.
“The ants come marching two by two…”
Hope your unwanted visitors take a hike!
I detest ants! One summer we were inundated with them I bought two “Ant feeding stations” which have bait it and tiny holes only they or something smaller can get in. They take the bait back to their nests and within a week we never saw another one.
Eww. I have a strong aversion to ants. Your mom is right … when there are a few, there are more on their way!