Question:please help! every day there ants in it and it needs to stop!any ideas would be GRATLY appreciated!
Answers:
put the dog bowl in a larger bowl with a little water in the bottom of the bigger bowl. Ants can't swim (or really don't like to if they can). They won't cross the moat to get to the dog food. Trust me. Works every time.
Other Answers:
Move the dish and spray the ants with Raid.
Move the dish, and once the dog is dine, clean up all food and little leftovers on the floor right away. Leave out only water. Spray for ants too-Just make sure the dogs foos in not around.
buy one of those ant killing things, put them around your dogs food bowl and teach your dog not to touch them.
put the dog's dish in a shallow dish of water
put boric acid around the dish. safe for animals, incests hate it.
Put your dog's food bowl in a tray of water. If ants try to get in they fall in and drown.
Put the bowl inside the house.
dump a pound of sugar on the edge of your property, that should distract them from the kibble, and your house...i had to throw a whole bag out in this manner and the ants dissapeared!
When your dog is not eating...cover the bowl with saran wrap...or just cover it with something...if it still happens...track down the ants and see where they are coming from...then clean out the ants and cover the place where they are coming from
If they are fire ants, blast the dish with a fire extinguisher. Works every time.
Simply place your dogs bowl / dish in a shallow (1 inch) pan of water ..... ants can't swim .
Put your dogs dish in a larger dish then fill the second dish with water forming a moat ants don't swim you'll have to keep an eye on the water because your dog's going to drink it! this works!
Take up the food bowls and spray the surrounding area with otc bug killer-its safe. Then Put down food bowls only when you feed. Take bowls back up as soon as dogs are finished-dont leave dirty bowls out all day. Ants 'forage' constantly, if they find an abundance of food they will return --with help.
putting the dog food bowl in a shallow plate of water does work..last year we had fire ants get into the house and that is what we did.
Problem was solved.
The moat approach works VERY well and best of all, cost effective! Also, there are stands that keep food and water dishes off the ground. They come in various sizes to accommodate you dog's height. If you want to see what these look like, follow this link...
http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441775846&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302025790&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023689&bmUID=1154474374536&itemNo=7&Nao=0&In=Dog&N=2025790&Ne=2
the trick of the larger bowl with a little water works well. i also do that with my drinks at nightmy drink gets put into a small bowl of water
but the other guy had a good point about putting the food away when it is not feeding time.
and everytime you find ants, make sure you clean with soap and water, to remove their salavic trails. (yea, i might've made that word up)
on the other hand, teaching your dog to stomp ants makes for a silly party trick.
you can buy a stand that the dog bowls aree not on the ground. Becareful with any poisons to kill the ants you don't want you dog eating the ant traps ect...or your dog can get very sick...big vet bill....
What i did was went to store and got a big bottle of [ Bug Stop ] . It works inside and outside. I feed the dogs in side and those little things can get in some how. I just sprayed around the door and along the walls and it stopped them.
You can grate cucumber and sprinkle it around the bowl..skin and all..
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