We’ve been ant-free for 3 weeks and Pia’s holding a grunge against Mom for that. Pia only vies for Mom’s attention in the early morning before Mom leaves for work when Mom doles out a few kibbles for the girls Tessa, Viola, and Pia (Quint gets his special dietary kibble earlier still). Other than at that time, Pia doesn’t want to do anything with Mom. Pia actually leaves the room when Mom enters it, no matter what room in the house that is. Mom enters the room, Pia shoots her a wide-eyed glare and immediately looks for the exit.
And, as expected, Mom’s sad over that and not sad in the least about the ants. Who knew someone would get mad over the lack of ants?
Quite honestly, Mom thought we might lose Pia. Pia lost weight in that week-long ant feast, before we discovered we even had an ant problem. From what we can tell now, Pia’s feeling much better and is slowly gaining back lost weight. She’s eating just kibble now (no ants!) and won’t even sniff at canned food. At least she’s eating real cat food and that’s what’s important. Our big worry now is that we’re just starting ant season here. We can only put out so many ant traps (already 2-6 per room) and Mom can only spend so many hours caulking every square inch of this house.
Are you done talking now? ‘Cause I think I heard an ant!
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2023 – Wordless Wednesday
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2021 – Questions for Dad
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2017 – Wordless Wednesday
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2013 – The Critique, by Tessa
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Carole, is it possible to have a pest control person come in just the once and spray for ants? Pia is in bad shape when she wrangles one to the ground and vanquishes it! It’s worth the 30 bucks for a pro, maybe . I had an abundance of the tiny tiny ones…and my pest control man had them gone. He also treated the outside of my home but not sure where, as I didn’t follow him. It’s a thought.
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Oh, Pia!
Such a todo over some creepy crawly things.
Your meowmy is very impawtant in your life; you should make up with her.
pia…de antz iz ona ramp page heer two and eye toll em
go bak two wear de unklez R and get outta me houz. knock
wood N tozz salt, eye think they hurd me 😼😼😼 N tell
yur mom two let ewe haz her charge o card and that will
make thingz …WAY better 😺😺🍀🍀 bee well and eat
yur foodz 💙💚like…oh…perch on de grill !
My gosh Pia, ants are not worth being sick over! Maybe you’ve tried this already, but if they are sugar ants you can use tiny piles of cornmeal instead of bait. They eat the cornmeal, can’t digest it, and die.
Pia, you really do not want to eat ants and get ill again.
How odd that Pia is holding a grudge. Please keep eating Pia. Have you tried the appetite stimulant ear gel?
Oh Pia, how stubborn you are!
We’ve never had any kitty eating ants and are sure glad they didn’t/don’t.
Guess she will soon start acting normal to her Mom.
Hugs,
Mariette + Kitties
PIa, we are glad you are back on the kibble and off those ants. We hope you decide to forgive Mom Cole soon; she sure loves you a lo. XO