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Home > Home & Garden > Topics:  Animal & Pest Control
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Quick Fix for Ants in Your Pet's Food Dish

Submitted by: Pnancarrow  02/27/2009 5:12 PM
 
When feeding pets outdoors, we've had ants get into their food. They ruin the pet food and (probably) sting the dog or cat.

Try this: Place your pets food dish (use a heavy ceramic dish) in an aluminum cake pan, and fill the pan 1/2 to 3/4 full of water. Ants won't cross the "moat".
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This is also a trick I tried as we have sooooo many ants. I call it the moat!

I also have large trash cans to store horse feed and it is a big ant treat if I get the "sweet feed". I use oranges or lemons, I set 1/2 sections inside the bin, rub the sections around the edges and use a citrus spray to spray the entire outside. I even use 1/2 lemons or oranges in my Jeep to keep them out!
 
Posted by Hilda on April 11, 2009 11:46 AM
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My cousin has a very large dog and the ants would ruin the dog's food, so he put a baby swimming pool in the yard,weighted it down with a few concret blocks, put in the food dish(that was weighted down also) and filled the little pool with water. No more ants in the dog food.
 
Posted by gale osborn on June 30, 2009 8:46 AM
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