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- Subject: Re: ants in the catfood
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- Date: 26 Jan 1993 04:08:52 GMT
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- In article <25JAN199314291861@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> piltch@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Nancy Piltch) writes:
- >I came home yesterday to the sight of ants swarming around the catfood
- >dish (and assorted bits of food on the floor.) Any ideas how to eliminate
- >the ants without poisoning the cats too?
-
- Try putting the food dish in a dish of water; something, let's say, 1"
- larger than the food dish itself. The cats can reach over it to the
- food (they probably won't know the difference!) but the ants can't
- cross teh water. Always worked for me.
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