Anyone got any cruelty-free tips for getting rid of ants???
Came home to find them camped out in my hall/kitchen - they appear to be attracted to my cats' food bowls... I can't kill anything so need an ant-friendly removal system...have googled it but have none of the obscure herbs/oils etc to hand.
Have moved the bowls higher up as a holding measure, much to the cats' chagrin
If it was the odd one or two I'd just take them outside but there're loads of them - I'd get no drinking done...
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Anyone got any cruelty-free tips for getting rid of ants???
Came home to find them camped out in my hall/kitchen - they appear to be attracted to my cats' food bowls... I can't kill anything so need an ant-friendly removal system...have googled it but have none of the obscure herbs/oils etc to hand.
Have moved the bowls higher up as a holding measure, much to the cats' chagrin
If it was the odd one or two I'd just take them outside but there're loads of them - I'd get no drinking done...
Yup I've been there with all the cruelty-free stuff to get rid of ants... And I've even gone as far as to use tape to where they're coming in. One thing that has helped me is to try to get cats on a schedule to eating. And then promptly remove dishes after they're done. Also, remove any crumbs. Use foam placemats to put your cat bowls on for easy cleanup too.
Thank you I do the foam mat thing but don't clear away the bowls - I'm hardly ever at home so I tend to leave food down all day for them and then put more down when I get home for through the night, then wash the bowls in the morning - will have to rethink until the ants bugger off!
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we sometimes used cinnamon. they dont like that. so if there is some kind of entrance, pour a lot of it there. HOwever unfortunately they seemed to get accustomed to it after a while.
best advice: Kill them (sorry to say)
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I had an ant plague in my pub once. I bought a plug-in electrical thinger that apparently transmits at a frequency throughout the electrical cables in the house that insects and creepy crawlies don't like. No idea whether it worked though as I also attacked them with ant spray and diatomaceous earth If you have £12 you don't really want to have any longer you could always give it a punt, linky here: www.gizoo.co.uk/Products/InsectRepeller.htm?spmc=TGSPPCGGP899&gclid=CM6GvMe95b0CFZShtAodDFoAjg
steve
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Thank you all - may have to try any or all (except maybe Tom and Jerry lol) if my current food deprivation plan doesn't work - came back today to far fewer ants so I am hoping if they realise there isn't any cat food around they'll bog off and find someone else's house to raid.
Need to find something impenetrable to block their entrance route with, it's just a tiny gap under the front door so not sure what would work - don't want to accidentally cement the front door into the frame - mind you, I could always enter and leave the house through a window, Dukes of Hazzard stylee...how cool would I look then?
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Pipperoo
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Just wipe the wee barstewards out. Raid, powder, boiling water. Annihilate them
Or invite Tom & Jerry round for a picnic in the garden. That'll do it.
Yep or invite Renee Zellweger over for lunch.
but yeah I usually just clorox them. Yeah, I'm no help sorry...
Ha ha - thank you everyone's been a help - between here and FB I've had so many suggestions, some cruelty-free, many of them illegal, and some of them downright dangerous in my klutz hands - I know from past experience that flamethrowers and me don't mix, for example - you live and learn...who needs eyebrows anyway?
Tonight, it's all gone quiet on the ant-front, so fingers crossed...
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