How do you get rid of Ants?

[sparkles1975]

We have Ants coming in from outside and need a pet friendly way to get rid of them as they climb near our pet cages.Please help x

[WendyS]

Go to Robert Dyas, a good garden centre or hardware shop and buy Ant Bait Station. They are two small plastic containers with little clips you break off to allow the ants access to the bait. They are far more effect that messy Nippon or white powder and pets can't get anywhere near the bait. It will seem at first that they encourage even more ants to come but they take the bait back to their nest and within 24 hours every single one will disappear. This product really is the best ant killer we've ever come across.

[ironorchid]

I have to agree with the previous answer, the Nippon Bait stations are brilliant but it took about a week to ten days to clear them all for us. In our case, the ants have been walking though the house from font to back under the floorboards and coming up under the sink, so we also bought the Nippon powder and covered the cracks and crevices on the drive with it, and bought the Nippon Spray and sprayed the floorboards under the sink unit and anywhere else we thought they might be coming through, of course avoining any food preparation or storage areas. However, I have been warned they are notoriously difficult to get rid of, so I am preapre for the same to happen next summer.