We apologize for the lack of quality in this photo. We could blame Tessa for moving, but it was Mom who moved first.
Anyway, back in February we discovered an early-for-the-season ant problem downstairs and while dealing with that, we decided we most definitely didn’t want the ant problem upstairs where the Colehaus Cats food bowls are located. In the cat room (because they have their own room – spoiled much?) we have low cabinets that run against the window wall, the point being they are up off the floor where ants usually prefer to start their food expeditions.
Originally on the floor, we moved two cat feeder bowls up onto the cabinets and another feeder bowl, Quint’s, is located on another low cabinet just out of the photo. Pia’s is still on the floor and we need to figure out something for that bowl very soon. She’s the only non-jumper we have so getting herself up onto a cabinet top won’t work. She also takes up more room (politely trying to say Pia’s a BIG girl) so putting her feeder bowl into an open cabinet won’t work either. She doesn’t fit.
Two years ago, we caulked the window frame, the baseboard to the wall, and the baseboard to the floor, and haven’t had an ant problem in that room since. In a neighboring room, we did the same just this past January and hope that blocks ants from visiting there. Time will tell. Those brazen ants have been slowly creeping closer and closer to the cat room over the years and Mom hopes to not spend another spring/summer/fall on constant ant watch.
Lucky Viola Niblet’s feeder bowl is downstairs on the top of a long kitchen countertop where we can keep an eye on how’s she’s eating, and any potential kitchen ants with a death wish who may choose to climb up there. We haven’t seen any kitchen ants in a long while and as for why Viola’s feeder bowl is downstairs while everyone else’s is upstairs, it’s a long, convoluted reason involving the 2022 bathroom leak disaster and a certain independent girl who wanted to flex her independent muscles at the same time by refusing to eat.
The take-away from this tale: House ants. Who needs them?
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
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Eww, we do not like ants one bit. We sure hope your efforts stop their encroachment!
Oh good grief!
Ants on top of everything else going on.
Kitties, why don’t you do something about those ants; you are big and scary and…well, you are cats! Do something!
Yuk, ants! We had a big problem with them about 3 years ago and I bought some ant bait traps. They are safe for other animals because they are like a small plastic box with a tiny hole on each corner just big enough for ants to get in. They take the bait back to the nest and in a few days they were gone. I put one in our porch and one outdoors where I knew they were running. I put a flat stone on the outdoor one to keep it dry. *touch wood* I haven’t had a problem since.
Ants are such a pain. I keep battling some in the bathroom.
Oh noes! I purr you can get rid of the ant problem. It is NOT fun to have them in the home. They are so annoying.
Purrs, Julie