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Step 2Suspend the food bowl
Requires:
1. A food bowl,
2. 3 eye bolts
3. some nylon string ( or something tough)
4. 3 10-inch clothes hanger wires (straightened)
5. a nail
How to do it:
This keeps ants out of your dog's food by keeping it slightly off the ground (an inch or so). My dad asked me to find a way to keep ants out, so i thought this up about a year ago, and it's been working since!
Take your dog bowl and drill three evenly spaced holes on the top rim of the bowl. screw in the eye bolts into those holes. if you made the holes too big, use nuts, bolts, or a combination of both to keep it in place.
Now take the clothes hangers and insert one end in through the eye bolt. bend over about 1-2 cm over the eye bolt so that it holes. on the other end of the clothes hanger, make a hook that doesnt close on itself that goes curls in the same direction as the hole that went through the eye bolt.
Do this for all three clothes hangers, then zip tie the hooks together.
Take the string and tie a good strong knot on the hooks. You can now close the hooks completely if you wish.
Nail an nail into a wall or a roof like i did and wrap the excess string around it until the bowl is about an inch off the ground.
Now ants won't get into your dog's food! My dog's food used to always be covered in ants.
1. A food bowl,
2. 3 eye bolts
3. some nylon string ( or something tough)
4. 3 10-inch clothes hanger wires (straightened)
5. a nail
How to do it:
This keeps ants out of your dog's food by keeping it slightly off the ground (an inch or so). My dad asked me to find a way to keep ants out, so i thought this up about a year ago, and it's been working since!
Take your dog bowl and drill three evenly spaced holes on the top rim of the bowl. screw in the eye bolts into those holes. if you made the holes too big, use nuts, bolts, or a combination of both to keep it in place.
Now take the clothes hangers and insert one end in through the eye bolt. bend over about 1-2 cm over the eye bolt so that it holes. on the other end of the clothes hanger, make a hook that doesnt close on itself that goes curls in the same direction as the hole that went through the eye bolt.
Do this for all three clothes hangers, then zip tie the hooks together.
Take the string and tie a good strong knot on the hooks. You can now close the hooks completely if you wish.
Nail an nail into a wall or a roof like i did and wrap the excess string around it until the bowl is about an inch off the ground.
Now ants won't get into your dog's food! My dog's food used to always be covered in ants.
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Jun 29, 2009. 9:13 AMgrundisimo
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there is a problem on this step. the ants can still climb down the ropes into the bowl.
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