I have placed my pets dry food bowl in another bowl of water so the ants will find a mote of water to keep them from the food. I have been widening the mote over time & I now have a swimming breed of ants after 5 or 6 years of this method working. Any suggestions of how to have the dry food out without ants?????
Maybe you should use something else besides water. I hear ants don’t like mint gum, but I’m not sure how pets will react to the gum. Also, look around this site.