Do your outdoor/indoor cats bring ants into your home?

zanana1

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:12 PM
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Do your outdoor/indoor cats bring ants into your home?

I think ants are hitching a ride on my cats and bringing them inside; particularly in my bedroom. Yech. Does anybody else think this is a possibility?

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Orrex

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:21 PM
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1. Mine brought his uncle.

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Crystal Clarity

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:30 PM
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2. So aunt is ant to you too?

I thought it was just a Jersey thing. :shrug:

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Orrex

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:05 PM
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13. I do have an aunt in Jersey, now that you mention it.

Princeton, to be precise. Near the Squibb plant.

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Crystal Clarity

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:50 PM
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3. Sorry Zanana

Edited on Fri Jun-11-10 07:54 PM by Crystal Clarity

At least one of us will be civil and reply. Ahem... (you know who you are :P)

I've had outdoor kitties all of my life but only this year had an issue with ants. Alot of our friends are having the same issue. Perhaps it's just this type of year climate-wise? :shrug:

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zanana1

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:58 PM
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5. Either that, or cats have formed an ant taxi service. nt

Edited on Fri Jun-11-10 07:58 PM by zanana1

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zanana1

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:59 PM
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6. Do you live in the northeast? nt

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Crystal Clarity

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Fri Jun-11-10 08:23 PM
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8. Yes I do

in Maine. 2 years ago it was ladybugs, now ants. Very odd.

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Orrex

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:04 PM
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12. You can dissolve the problem with some antacid.

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Crystal Clarity

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:16 PM
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15. The ants or you?

BTW aren't you supposed to be ignoring us? :shrug:
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Orrex

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:25 PM
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17. Did you hear about the drone who wanted to marry the queen but didn't want anyone to know?

They decided to antelope.

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hedgehog

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Fri Jun-11-10 07:51 PM
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4. For years, I would get little tiny brown ants everywhere for two weeks in late Spring.

They'd come in , walk around a while, then leave.

Haven't seen them in years.

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Duer 157099

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Fri Jun-11-10 08:04 PM
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7. Does your cat lay down on anthills?

And can you see ants all over your cats? Or do you just find ants in the bedroom and think the cats are importing them?

Now fleas, that's a whole nother matter, but that's because they're attracted to the body heat.

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zanana1

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:58 PM
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9. I've never seen ants on my cats...

Then again two of them are black and the other is gray. Kinda makes it hard to see ants.

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Orrex

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:20 PM
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16. If you find them on the cats' feet, then they're pedants

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applegrove

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:01 PM
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10. In my experience ants can find their own way into a home.

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csziggy

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:02 PM
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11. Mine just bring in ticks and sandspurs - I'd rather have ants.

The Frontline is not working and he still has fleas, too.

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david13

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:07 PM
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14. Mine used to. But I don't let him out anymore. He would roll in them and get them all

over himself, then come in.
But you must also realize that ants can walk thru' the tiniest spaces, so tiny you can't see the spaces, and up walls, and down and around and into the kitchen or bathroom or anywhere. I have battled with them from time to time coming down from the ceiling and everywhere. Fortunately, they have not bothered me for 2 years now.
Oh, I hope my house is not toxic or something.
dc

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