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How to Keep Ants out of Cat Food (A Quick and Easy DIY)

Last updated on: July 22, 2019 By Kaylene Filed Under: Animals, How To, Pets 4 Comments

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Blue bowl containing dry cat food with small black ants walking around the edge of the bowl. Text overlay says: How to Keep Ants Out of Cat Food! (a quick & easy DIY).

Blue bowl containing dry cat food with small black ants walking around the edge of the bowl. Text overlay says: How to Keep Ants Out of Cat Food! (a quick & easy DIY).Are you frustrated by ants getting into your cat’s food bowl? This simple DIY will show you how to keep ants out of cat food bowls quickly and easily.

Our two cats (Maddy and Wally) are part inside and part outside cats. They have a few hours outside each day and are brought back inside in the late afternoon.

When they are out during the day we always put out some dry food for them to eat. There’s no issue with doing this over winter because there’s not many ants around. Once the weather warms up it is a different story though, the ants soon find the food no matter where you put it!

Dry cat food in a blue bowl which has lots of small black ants crawling over the food and up the side of the bowl.This summer I’ve come up with a pretty easy solution to the issue of how to keep ants out of cat food bowls. All you need is a saucer for a plant pot (i.e. what you put under a potted plant to catch the excess water). Just make sure that your saucer is a little bit bigger than the cat’s food bowl and you’ll be all set. Oh and you’ll need a small amount of water too!

So there’s no need to go out and buy a fancy ant proof cat bowl, you can make one yourself!

 

How to Keep Ants Out Of Cat Food

What you’ll need:

  •  saucer for plant pot*
  • water

* make sure the saucer is slightly bigger than cat’s food bowl

 

How to set it up:

  • Place the saucer where you want to feed your cat.
  • Add a small amount of water to the saucer. You only need to cover the bottom of the saucer because if you put too much it will make the food bowl float. It does with mine anyway because they are plastic.
  • Place your cat food bowl with food into the saucer and you’re done!

You can top up the saucer with extra water as necessary. Plus don’t forget to provide you cat with a separate bowl of fresh water to drink.

As you can see, keeping ants out of a cat food bowl is super easy really. The water in the saucer forms a moat around the cat’s bowl keeping the ants out!

Tabby cat sitting eating dry food from a bowl. The cat food bowl is inside a larger dish of water which forms a moat around the cat food bowl.This method has worked very well this summer. Maddy and Wally can have access to dry food all day without having to put up with the ants!

We only allow our cats to have dry food during the day and keep the wet food for the evenings. This makes sure they are keen to get back inside at night. If you want some help with getting your cat to come inside at night check out My Tips for Enforcing a Cat Curfew.

Blue bowl filled with dry cat food sitting on garden pavers. The cat food bowl is inside a larger dish of water which forms a moat around the cat food bowl. Text overlay says: Easy DIY Ant Proof Cat Food Bowl.


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  1. Hayley Childs says

    September 22, 2017 at 3:30 am

    I have some stray cats that I leave food out for at night and I’ve always struggled with ants getting in the food. It seems once the ants get into the food the cats won’t eat it (i can’t blame them). So I tried your idea last night and unfortunately it did not work. There were hundreds of ants in the bowl and in the water.

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    • Kaylene says

      September 22, 2017 at 7:24 pm

      That’s very annoying Hayley, I’ve never had any problems with ants when I use this method. It is normally very tiny black ants that I am dealing with but perhaps yours are bigger? Maybe you could make the moat around the cat food a little wider?

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      • Cynthia says

        September 19, 2022 at 9:59 am

        I use a tin pie plate and I had Terro ant poison around the back side of the pie tin. The ants eat the poison and take it back to their nests. I usually do this twice a year.

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