Nature is Amazing
Woman in the Middle | August 27, 2014Blackie is on three medicines now twice a day and I am happy to report that they are taking care of his various problems. Instead of squirting them in his mouth, which he HATES, we just mix them in a little bit of food and it is all good. Well, except for the fact that Honey likes to sneak in afterwards and clean up an scraps that Blackie leaves behind. We figure that Honey doesn’t need even a little bit of the cat’s medicine, but this has become an ongoing problem. Blackie takes forever to eat so we usually aren’t in the room the precise moment he finishes and Honey swoops in to clean up the bowl. (In case you are wondering, I will be getting to the nature part of this blog post in just a sec.)
The obvious solution to all of this is to feed Blackie somewhere elevated that Honey and her arthritic elbows can’t reach. That is not as easy as it seems since Blackie isn’t a spring chicken himself and can’t get up on anything too high. We do have a window seat where Blackie loves to sleep. Yesterday I decided to feed him his late morning medicine/food there to see how it went. It worked out fine. Blackie ate with relish as usual and Honey didn’t get into the bowl afterwards. Yesterday evening Blackie was expressing a desire for a snack and since I was going to feed him food without the medicine I decided to grab the bowl off the window seat and feed him in his normal spot on the kitchen floor. I picked up the bowl and, yech, it was full of those tiny black grease ants!
Seriously, we do not normally have pet bowls with greasy residue siting in the window seat. While I admit the bowl was there for several hours, in that time those ants, who were living outside I presume since we hadn’t seen them before in that room, somehow figured out that a deliciously greasy bowl was in the house, on that window seat, and came in in droves and took over that bowl. Nature is amazing isn’t it? (Told you it was coming!)
Now as amazing as I would like. A perfect ending is that they ate the medicine and all had a heart attack and were dead! (very Edgar Allen Poe-ish)
Definitely! But they were not dead, they were very much alive. I had to get out the poison spray and go outside and spray around the window. I try not to use that stuff inside.
Yes nature is truly amazing and it can be so dangerous at times
Especially in your country!
I left some figs in a bowl, not realizing that one was so ripe a little juice leaked out. Next thing I knew, ants were all over them & had gotten into a bag of flour tortillas.
I am having ant problems all over. First they were in my bathroom, then int he cat;s bowl int he kitchen, then on the counter int he kitchen, then in the bowl on the window seat. Not my favorite insect at the moment.
LOL! Nature does tend to get in the way sometimes, especially when we are least expecting anything.