How to Keep Ants Out of Pet’s Bowl
The ants are back! This time they are terrorizing my pet’s water bowl. Normally, they never get into the water bowl. Different year. Different ants. (I guess…) This is the first year that I’ve had to worry about ants taking over the water bowl for the dog. For some reason, the ants don’t bother with the food bowl. (Can’t figure that one out, yet.) So, I found this little simple trick and decided to test it out. And, yep….it works!
Items Needed: Petroleum jelly
Directions:
For starters, you’ll only need petroleum jelly. It does the trick. Any kind of petroleum jelly or vaseline will work. If you’re the type that would like to make your own vaseline to use, check out my post here.
First, start rubbing petroleum jelly on the bottom. Then, flip over and rub the petroleum halfway up the side of the dish. If you prefer, rubbing the entire sides of the dish, that is completely fine. The petroleum jelly makes it difficult for the ants to crawl up the side of the dish and get inside the bowl.
Then, after a couple of days, you should notice that the ants will start to disappear and there is a clear bowl. So happy to see that the ants have moved on to somewhere else.
Well I hope it doesn’t harm dogs because mine is now licking the sides of the bowl
Thank you for your help!
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That is so clever, I wish I had seen it a few weeks ago. I have had a real problem with Ants, I hate ’em.
Thanks for sharing such a great post.
Thanks for the tip! It worked!
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Thanks for the helpful tips. I have had an on again and off again ant problem for the last 3 years. I went to extremes to keep my house clean, but my dog bowls were always an open buffet. I think I’ll give your petroleum jelly trick a try next time if the ants come back.
O my good! It’s really working. Impressive. You know ants attack on my dog’s bowl is really annoying and I fell disturb when ants are cover the bowl. But Petroleum Jelly idea is really impressive. I will definitely use it today. Hope it will work like yours. I will notify you if it works. 🙂
Oh wow! What a simple idea! We used to have ants get into our dogs food bowl as well. Wish we would have known about this sooner! I’ll pass this along to others.