This isn't really real estate related, well, it is in a way. 
When summertime comes, so do ANTS! This year they seem especially bad, in my house and many others that I have talked with. Every day my kids eat popsicles and freezie pops and inevitably those little top plastic pieces cut off the freezie pops or the popsicle sticks will miss the trashcan and end up behind or next to it. Then come the ants.
So today I bought 4 little ant traps - RAID ant bait. Thought this would be a great idea to get rid of these little buggers as I've sprayed over and over and they keep coming back.
I started putting dishes in the sink, and heard my Golden Retriever Bailey crunching on something, looked over and to my horror saw that she was chomping on the ANT TRAP! She had 2 of them in the corner by her crate and was going to town. I ran over, grabbed the one out of her mouth and took the other one. I know she's not real bright, but ant traps????
So I googled "dog ate ant traps" and found many different websites with this topic - I figured my dog wasn't the only one on the planet who had eaten ant traps before and sure enough, a lot of dogs have. I read one post about a 56 pound dog who ate multiple ant traps and lived. My dog is about 90 pounds (she is a food stealer), so I am thinking that she might have to eat a lot of ant traps to get really sick. This happened about 2 hours ago and still no sign of anything. A tiny dog might not fare as well.
So I read the ingredients and they are 1% of this poison stuff and 99% inert ingredients. Guess what the "inert" ingredients are? PEANUT BUTTER!!!! No wonder dogs eat them!!!
Just wanted to warn you about using these little traps - maybe a "pet-safe" spray would be a better bet?
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