Ants in your pet's food? Use chalkboard chalk to draw a circle around the dish. The ants won't cross the chalk. This actually works, I have tried it!
By Sandy from Crystal Lake, IL
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I once got chalk from Chinatown and it had pictures of ants on the box. It works, but I don't know if it is a special chalk or just plain chalk.
I had used this method to keep ants from the cat bowls for a couple years... and it worked great. Notice the tense in my grammar? Past tense! I don't know what happened but all of a sudden after relying on the chalk method for a long time I started to see ants in the bowls. I now have to keep the bowls on a tray that has water in it, and it has to be enough that the ants would have to 'swim' to get to it (which they won't of course).
I tried this yesterday, and as I was putting the chalk line down the ants were crossing it, going through it, and whatever....it in no way stopped them.
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