elizilla | Need advice from pet owning friends

Ant season has arrived. Last night they found all the cat food dishes, including the bowl on top of the file cabinet. Thousands of ants were in each bowl this morning.

Mac is old and doesn't eat quickly, especially since he no longer has Elizabeth to compete with. It takes him all day to eat a very small dab of wet cat food. He's also a messy eater. He picks up each individual piece of dry kibble, carefully drops it on the floor next to the dish, and then bites it in half, eating one half and leaving the rest on the floor, before going back to take another piece out of the dish. Any area with a food dish will quickly grow a ring of crumbs on the floor.

Does anyone have a suggested way to keep cat food available, 24 hours a day, without it becoming an ant farm, and without poisoning Mac?

In other pet-related news, thank you

rikhei for the link to the Furminator. Mac barfed up several hairballs the day you posted that. We went out and bought one, and Mac has not thrown up a hairball since. Yay!

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I've heard of this stuff before, but I don't know where to get it. Do either of you know a source? Thanks!

Goes by one brand name of Perma Guard, which I got at a local Lawn and Garden store.

Last time I got some, it was at the farm market at the corner of Carpenter & Ellsworth (SE corner, near past the gas station) if it's still there. I think it was actually called Diatomaceous Earth, but it might have been called some other pest control product. There was only one ingredient.

This stuff has also in the past been used as a Swimming Pool filtering/cleaning agent.. Check with pool supply or even the pool section at Meijer.

we used to have a pool filter that used it. i suspect it'll be cheaper per lb via a pool supply than through a pet store.

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