Yeah the ant things that Popcornbird is talking about works well. It looks like one of those roach motels except it is for ants... you just put it in the line of ants (somwhere where the precious kitties can not get to it) and they take the poison to the colony and it kills them all... I had to use them and it worked.

Hey Aly!! You know someone invented something like you were talking about.. I saw it in my Cat Fancy magazine... It is a tray you set the cat food bowls on and you fill it up with water and the ants can not get to the food because they run into a canal of water... but they engeneered it to be spill proof.... GIRL you should have pattened that and made you some money!