My husband recently ate at an outside restaurant and noticed a bag of water on each table. The bag was half full of water and tied up on a stand so it wouldn’t touch the table…so it could vibrate and wiggly. He was told it would keep the flies away. So to test the idea, we took a ziplock Baggie and filled it half full of water, made a small hole in the top and ran a kite string thru it. We attached it to the metal “knocker” on our back door. Our dog food on the back porch attracts flies. Guess what? After two weeks, I have only found one fly that slipped thru the doorway when I had it wide open. Kewl, huh?
Category Archives: Pets
Keeping ants out of pet’s food
My dogs are outside dogs. I feed them on the back porch but sometimes they don’t eat immediately. If I come back a hour or so later, their food is filled with #### ants. I have found if I take a square 8 x 8 pan of water with a little Dawn dish detergent in it and sit the bowl of dog food in it, the ants cannot get into the food. I know there are some dishes and stuff out there for sale that do the same thing, but my idea is a lot cheaper. Also, a side benefit: the palmetto bugs that are huge and plentiful in Florida and I find one or two of them occasionally in the soapy water in the morning. I hate those things.