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Need advice from pet owning friends
May. 21st, 2008 05:16 pmAnt 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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!
