Behold the lowly ants — persistent little devils, aren’t they?
Every year in our part of the country, spring brings with it a steady infiltration of ants into homes all over our neighborhood.
These aren’t big, scary, biting creatures. They’re the tiny little creatures my dad always called “piss ants.” (Is that profanity? I don’t know.) And as it happens, the first stream of them this year has targeted our old cat’s food dish.
Anybody have some cleaver, sure-fire way to get rid of the little devils? We’ve tried spraying the area around her dish — after removing the dish, of course — and they were back within a day. The next day I went to the store and bought a box of ant traps. From what I’ve heard, these ant traps are infallible. They draw the ants in to feed, then the little critters take the poison in the food back to their nest and — WHAM! The ants will be gone.
Sure. Right. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
We’re moving into the second week of battling this tiny stream of persistent little ants. The old cat isn’t thrilled about it. She sometimes looks puzzled peering into her food dish as they crawl all over her dry food. My wife and I aren’t thrilled about it, either. We hate dumping the dry cat food into the trash and trying valiantly to gage the amount of food in the bowl to fit the cat’s eating habits so there’s nothing setting there to attract ants.
Yes, we’ve checked all around the outside of the house, near doors and windows, pretty much everywhere we can think of and — we’ve not found where the ants are getting in.
Ah, well. They’re usually gone with the heat and drier weather of summer. If we and the cat can stand it that long.
Any suggestions? Tell us, please.
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