Ants are trying to eat my dog.

Iv been seeing alot more ants in my home recently. My dogs kennel is in my bedroom. A few days ago i went to put him in the kennel in the morning before i left for work and found his bedding covered in ants. So i swap the bedding for clean sheets, clean the crate of ants and move the kennel to the living room. Its been fine for a day. Last night i saw a couple ants crawling across the carpet, the girlfriend and i both got bit. So i put a trail of powder around his kennel since most ants will not cross over powder, just in case. I just came home from work and found a freakin army of ants lined up around the kennel just outside of the powder. Why are they trying to eat my dog? What product can i use in the carpet and around the entire apt where they might be entering? There are no ant mounds anywhere in sight. Iv been vacuuming every day. I need to get this done tonight, is there something i can get at walmart that is known to work?

 

Ive heard that dish soap and water in like a poison sprayer will kill them. A bug man told me one time that most of the "poison" they are spraying is a soap base. Might be crazy but I would try it.

 

I just did some google research and it seem like the most people are recommending powder lol. I mean, it saved my dog today so i guess im gonna go buy a shit load of powder and make a thick barrier everywhere they are coming in. I have cats too so i dont wanna use any chemicals.

 

Right. Well if it's working than do it up x10. I hate those little frickers. I had some out back where my dog does his business. He started geeken around like he was getting shocked or something. Made me laugh until I noticed they were fire ants.

 

ants are wingless wasps..they all can bite and sting.
they travel via sent...you need to cut off the sent trail
to eliminate them from coming back, as every single one of them at the nest site knows your dwelling is food supply. you got some real work to do..be vigilant for
48 hrs and you'll stop them.

 

I have never heard of pesties using soap based product to treat ants and i use to work in the pest industry.

With ants you must be vigilant as even one professional treatment will not entirley knock them out. I would for now, use your powder until you can either seal off the areas they are using as entry points and even then i would get a pro out to look at it.
most of the "bug" type chemicals used are harmless to us and familypets these days but i still wouldnt get any powder in reach of the dog, you wouldnt ingest it so the same should go for your dog.

A big thing with ants is moisture, and if its the first bit of moisture they find ie, food bowl , water bowl or even urine, they will call in the troops to clean it up.

Use what you can for now but get a pet guy out to fix the problem.

At least they are inside and youve noticed them.
I know someone whos dog died on his spot because he was being harrased by ants in very hot wheather, as he was stressed out he eventually tipped his water over and died of heat strees from trying to escape the ants and had no fluids to drink.

And keep an eye on it, as an example of their control, our company would offer upto twelve months on any insect related pest besides termites and ants, with ants we would only give a max of three months warranty, and in bad times we would have to re do about half of the jobs at least once in that time.

 

There are products you can buy at walmart. they look like black little hotels which contain poison the ants take back to feed to the queen and the colony, and it will kill all of that said colony. I used them ALL the time and they work. I suggest using the pwder and putting the hotels around the outter barrier where the ants are and see if that works.

 

Oh good grief! How could something like that not be noticed and something done about it?

Dreamer

 

Dreamer, it was a extremely hot Australian summer day, of over 40c which is?[over 110f?] and it all happened over the day when the owner was at work.
There had been no signs of the ants around the spot[according to the owner] and the only real fault i could pick in the entire setup was the fact his water was in a place where he could tip it over. They live out in the country so no neighbours or anyone noticed anything.
The owner was absolutely shattered as it was her last of the APBT's she had owned, due to laws she changed to amstaffs, and the APBT was kept as a loved family pet. Very sad.

 

this is the first time i heart such thing..
whe dont got that scary ants.. just in forrest... red ants bite..

i do know when whe have little ants.. i destroy them whit ghloor thats a cleaning thing..

i go find the hole they live in and fill it up they come out whit much much ants walk just al little and die.

dont know if you got something on it bud good luck...



and you cn always buy diesel a shotgun:p:p

 

i take all that kind of bugs down whit ghloor verry good stuff hehehehe :p

 

There ya go. I'm really sorry for the dog and owner, but in those conditions -- which were known --, yeah, having tip-over-proof water would seem pretty basic....

Sorry, I get very harsh over these things...because I've been there, done that and know what it takes to take care of more than 20 dogs of all ages in hot, fire-ant prone Texas summers...never lost a one to the heat...losing one in the heat is just a real peeve of mine....such an awful way to go and so unnecessary...

Dreamer

 

Agreed, pretty disapointing that some people still have tippable containers with dogs on chains when its pretty obvious that if the chain has enough room to loop the water the dogs leverage changes and make a generally hard container tip over with ease, logical and simple and a pretty rookie mistake. I class that as the dumbest mistake to make with APBT's on chain spots, equal with chaining next to a reach able tree brench or jumpable fence where the dogs will choke themselves, if i recall these were the very first things i was taught about these dogs, so i do think its unforgivable.

 

Found a couple gaps in the bricks outside. I unloaded a few cans of raid ant spray in the gaps and along the brick all around as well as the windows and doors. Put more powder around the kennel and saw ants only one more time. My guess is that they were the ants that got trapped inside, killed em and now we seem to be pretty ant free. Hope it lasts.

 

for an au natural approach- plain ol' flour, or calcium carbonate ( i.e lime)

 

Burn em down! And after you did it, use chemicals. Then all ants will be gone for sure.
I would give the dog and the cats to friends for a couple of days cos of the chemicals.

 

Don't forget uncooked grits, ants can't digest it and it won't hurt your dogs or kids....just sprinkle it where ya see them come in.

 

Terro ant bait is the best you can get. It attracts them and once they take the bait back it kills the colony. If you want to use powder borax is what is the main ingrediant in Terro. I always get great results from this over the last few years. The black and bait boxes are worthless. Good luck