ET has a room all to himself, so his litter box, food bowl and water fountain is in his room. Yes, the food bowl does attract ants, cockroaches and lizards. I managed to get an anti-ant tray, so that is settled, but I can't prevent cockroaches and lizards from invading his room and they are actually courting death cos ET will never let them leave the room alive. He can spend hours just staring and waiting for the lizards and forego his meals. The next thing you know, I'll find lizard carcass somewhere in his room.

When I told my neighbour "my cat catch cockroaches and lizards", her reply was "how? when lizards usually stay high up on the wall". Frankly, I don't know, but I find cockroach and lizard carcasses under his cushion, squashed, dried up carcasses under stool, behind and under his litter box.

 

Ew >< i really dun wanna see those digusting bugs in my room. I remove the bowls right after her meals not sure if that's enough to prevent. My cat ran when the roach was in living room last night. But maybe that's coz i screamed when she was napping. I'm not sure if i will 'like' to see my cat catching roaches though as she comes on my bed everyday. The thought of her touching those disgusting bugs makes me shiver already.. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

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Ew >< i really dun wanna see those digusting bugs in my room. I remove the bowls right after her meals not sure if that's enough to prevent. My cat ran when the roach was in living room last night. But maybe that's coz i screamed when she was napping. I'm not sure if i will 'like' to see my cat catching roaches though as she comes on my bed everyday. The thought of her touching those disgusting bugs makes me shiver already.. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

I think your cat ran because you screamed. you can remove her dishes as soon as she eats and wash them, but microscopic crumbs are enough for ants or roaches. you probably already know this, but for every roach you see, there are hundreds in the walls. I suggest a pet-safe fumigator. (it sort of depends on what kind they are. german cockroaches are the smaller ones and the hardest to get rid of. yes I watch animal planet lol.) if it was a big sewer roach or palmetto bug, those are still gross but they tend to live outdoors instead of inside.

if you ever eat in your bedroom, they come in there already, you're just asleep and probably don't have a huge infestation.

I feed my cats in the kitchen. canned food doesn't smell unless you leave it out all day and it would never sit that long here. if I were your mother i'd be far more concerned about roaches than cat food odor.

 

Ewwww, snowy... just EWWW! lol lizard carcass :::shivers:::

I have their food and water bowls in the kitchen. It just seemed the logical place, they've always been there. Fortunately I don't have an insect problem (or lizards LOL).

In the summer I will take their breakfast and supper meal out to the garden. They like a bit of al fresco when the weather allows. LOL noooooo, they are NOT spoiled.

 

lol...I hate clearing lizard carcass, especially those that still aren't totally dried up yet. I remembered clearing one that had just died a couple mins and with tail missing and I had to search the whole room for just that tail. I found it in the end and it was still moving, ewwww....

 

I rather see lizards than roaches :s At least lizards will eat insects.. i think. I saw one lizard running at home before but it's missing now..

I really dun wanna feed my cat in my room anymore. It stress me out when i think about insects coming in eating her food pieces. I just saw my cat dropped a big piece of wet food on the mat then stepped on it. There was even food on her cheeks and neck and her fur scarf and even back of her head.. as if she rubbed her head to clean the bowl. I should talk to mom again about feeding her in kitchen, though i think it'll fail.

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They're in the kitchen, in the least human-trafficked corner, but quite near the sink.

I don't have any problem with pests, probably due to the climate. But I do have a big problem with mess, because Sune is a complete piglet with his food, so a cute plastic mat like you have was no use here. He always pushes his food forwards out of his bowl, and sometimes he just plays in it for fun and scatters it around so it ends up under the fridge or the stove - I expect I would have problems with bugs soon if I let him do that all the time. I keep his bowls on a nice wooden tray with high sides, just to contain him a bit (he's a big boy, so the sides don't bug him at all.)

Sepideh's bowls are next to his, just around the corner, but she's a little lady. Oddly enough, Sune won't eat out of her bowls (even though he could make an unholy mess with them) and she's figured out she can sit on the bottom shelf of a bookshelf to eat out of his, even with the high sided tray.

They have a big stainless steel bowl for water in the upstairs bathroom too - it stays nice and cold the whole day, so they drink from that much more often than the kitchen bowls, no matter how much I refill those.

 

Cat food dishes go in the kitchen with at least 3 feet between bowls. One of the cats likes to eat under a chair so his dish goes there. Water dishes are like 10 feet from the food and litter boxes are in the laundry room far away from the food and water.

 

I feed Munch on his shorter cat tree... keeps the dogs out. I don't leave dishes out for Munch or the dogs. I have an automatic waterer for the dogs, which Munch uses too so I dont have to keep another bowl out for him... which is a good thing as he enjoys dumping bowls of water.

 

I built a 4ish foot tall stand to keep the food & water away from my dog. Made it a scratching post too, and as you can see it's been worn out a little bit

 

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My cats' feeding area is in my kitchen. The tiled floor makes it easy to clean, and I've never had any problems with odours. This is an old photo - the layout remains the same: two bowls for wet food, one for dry, but I only have half the amount of cats pictured now

They also have a water fountain in the living room, right next to the sofa.

 

Food bowls in the kitchen. I have water bowls in the kitchen,and cat room. The water bowls are the only things that have anything in it during the day anyways

 

It's a total mix up around here. Out of four animals only two eat one of their meals at the same time in the same room.

Tara is fed once a day at dinner, in the kitchen. Not in a bowl or dish but on a plastic cutting board sheet, because she's afraid of them. If she doesn't eat it all at once the rest is given before bed.

Coco is fed kibble in the morning in the kitchen while Jasper eats his wet food in my bedroom. Usually despite these measures, Jasper has to come into the kitchen once he's done and go after Coco's kibble before she'll be encouraged to finish.

For dinner both Coco and Jasper are fed wet food in my room. It isn't a big deal, I usually pick up the plates either as soon as Jasper walks away from the dish or, if I'm busy, within 15-20 minutes.

Blacky eats whenever, we feed her downstairs on an unused pool table. At night we leave her food out, and in the day if someone is around we will call her in for few minutes/feed her if she's waiting for food.

Water bowl in my room, a new thing, but I think after summer I'll remove it. Also one in the kitchen, family room and pool table.

 

Those roaches are the big ones. They probably sneaked in somewhere but if they laid eggs... then omgggg. I never eat in rooms, only drink water, so only my cat eat and drink here. I just had my mom catch a small one in my room. Sigh i dun even know if i can sleep properly now (got huge insect phobia). Becoz of this, i'm gonna discuss with mom again about cat eating in kitchen. Pray that i'll success. Also going to mop the floor with tea tree kennel wash to repel roaches. Strange though, i googled about tea tree oil and mint oil to repel roaches but it said they are both toxic to cats while my kennel wash contain tea tree (from.a brand that produce products for pets).Tea tree could be safe if diluted enough i guess. I wanted to make tea tree spray to repel those disgusting stuff. DE suppose to work well to get rid of pest but i'm not sure if it'll work if they didn't walk on it.. :banghead:

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Those roaches are the big ones. They probably sneaked in somewhere but if they laid eggs... then omgggg. I never eat in rooms, only drink water, so only my cat eat and drink here. I just had my mom catch a small one in my room. Sigh i dun even know if i can sleep properly now (got huge insect phobia). Becoz of this, i'm gonna discuss with mom again about cat eating in kitchen. Pray that i'll success. Also going to mop the floor with tea tree kennel wash to repel roaches. Strange though, i googled about tea tree oil and mint oil to repel roaches but it said they are both toxic to cats while my kennel wash contain tea tree (from.a brand that produce products for pets).Tea tree could be safe if diluted enough i guess. I wanted to make tea tree spray to repel those disgusting stuff. DE suppose to work well to get rid of pest but i'm not sure if it'll work if they didn't walk on it.. :banghead:

the big giant ones are almost as big as your thumb (i know, SICK) and if they came in through a drain you can cover the drains with saran wrap and a teacup but usually that only happens when real estate brokers have a house that sits vacant for quite awhile. they come inside through the toilet and shower/tub drains. if someone in your house is showering and flushing the toilet daily, i don't think it would be a problem. supposedly the outside ones don't breed inside because of humidity, so it would most likely not have laid eggs.

the ones maybe an inch long are the german ones, and they're a pain to get rid of. you can usually never get rid of them without a professional exterminator. anyway, you could try boric acid powder around the perimeter of your room and/or roach motels. neither will kill them but i think they don't like the powder and your cat won't eat it. in the hotels they just get stuck like on a fly strip. it does nothing to get rid of eggs or anything else but it would at least get rid of any that wander into your room. if you never have food in your room that's a plus but roaches will eat anything, paper, i don't know what else. if you live in a house, it shouldn't be too bad but if you're in an apartment and they're coming from someone else's place, you will never get rid of them until everyone else sprays too. it's kind of disgusting because they carry diseases and you never know how someone else keeps house.

i know there are pet-safe insecticides because I've lived over two restaurants for ten years and never seen a roach. i have preventive sprays once every six months, and i know it won't hurt your cats because I've been doing it for so long.

 

Bella and Dexter eat in their playroom

 

The cats bowl are I the dining room. Cabbit has a water and food bowl in the garage just incase he gets hungry or thirsty at night and Franky has his bowls in the front porch.

 

The living room is Smudges main room as it seemed to be the area with the least amount of temptations for a kitten.

His food dishes are at the side of the sofa and his water bowl is across the room


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The dishes for Midnight, the wild cat, are in the garage. (heated water dish in Winter). I put one of those plastic ant traps under the food dish in the Summer. Still no Cable TV in his house.

 

Book eats on the chair matt in the spare bedroom with the door shut(so he doesn't steal MowMows).

MowMow eats in the living room next to my kickboxing dummy. The water fountain sits on the same placemat that I put his food bowl on.

 

Mia's bowls are in the kitchen (which is very small) right next to the trash can. I leave her food out 24/7 in bowls that are next to each other held up by a metal stand. I refresh the water 2 times daily and put new food in every morning. It also has a matt under it incase she accidently spills a bit.
Never have had a problem with roaches all these years but I have always had landlords who routinely spray. Where I live now (16 apts in building) They get sprayed every other month routinely as prevention.

 

One day i launched a gas bomb in there and they were all dead.. But in house they probably sneaked in from gap of door and random holes? I thought they will lay eggs if humidity in house is high? I have no idea. I just freak out when i see it, worse if it ran away and lost in sight.

For pet-safe insecticide i'll take a look asap. I have never used insecticide spray actually. So.. is insecticide and preventive spray the same? I think some can kill as well as prevent?:banghead:

the ones you're talking about sound like german ones, they're everywhere and they know how to survive. if you had them one place, you probably moved them with you in boxes because they know how to hide. you can also move them in with you when you didn't have them before if you use produce boxes from grocery stores to move! :shock: roaches love humidity, the indoors ones will reproduce anywhere, unfortunately. they are drawn to stuff like pet food, but they prefer anything edible. trust me, you want them to stay hidden LOL (well if they're there, they're there, and if you're seeing baby ones that's a really bad sign, not to freak you out.)

I just use Orkin and the restaurants must do a pretty good job (because I've never seen any in either, and the dumpster room is right by their back entrances) (plus I can see in their kitchens lol), but preventive is when you don't have any and don't want to get any. exterminating them when they're already there is more expensive. hopefully they aren't coming from a close neighbor's house. if they don't spray when you do, they'll just come back. I believe the guy told me the spray they use sterilizes plus kills them, so they don't reproduce even if they live through it. if your mom doesn't want to pay pest control, don't waste your money on any bug sprays because most of them are toxic and don't work anyway. i'd just get some roach motels and boric acid powder is pretty cheap. some people use that diatomaceous earth, but I know nothing about it and I don't know how much it costs. I think it's pet-safe though. if you do use Orkin, just tell them that and they will make sure that's what they use. they spray under my kitchen sink and my cat gets in that cabinet all the time and it's never made him sick.

just keep moving the cat's dish to the kitchen. (of course that's really the room you don't want them in because your food is there, but if you don't want them in your bedroom, definitely don't feed the cat in it.)

 

Omg this is so grosssss But i thought german ones runs slower? The ones i usually see runs in speed of light. i hope it just passed by coz it been raining... i'm getting so anxious when i hear some sound >< i thought there's roach running near.

One of my neighbours had pest control a few weeks ago, hope the pests are killed on spot and not run to us.

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I live in a two bedroom apartment that is still quite small, like a one bedroom. So, I don't have a whole lot of options. My second bedroom is used as a computer room and it is where my gerbils live (so my cats don't have access to it). My cats are fed in the kitchen. I put all four bowls and their water fountain on a plastic mat, and that is where they've eaten since I adopted my first two last August. We've spent one and a half summers here, and have not had a single ant (when just about every house/apartment in the province gets outbreaks of them a few times each summer), so I've been quite lucky. I do spray inside and outside my door frame though, so most insects I see are already dead when I find them...

 

there you go. the first thing they do is run to where there isn't pesticide. people in apartments play musical roaches if they all get sprayed at different times. I don't know of any pesticide that wouldn't be dangerous that actually kills them on the spot.

 

My boys eat their meals and have their water fountain in the kitchen - for one thing, it's less effort for me, and for another I try to keep all the food eating (human or animal) in one area of the house. I usually leave an extra bowl of water for them in the living room or bedroom in case they get thirsty while they're playing.

We're in the process of moving to the new house, so during the transition Zephyr and Maisie will eat in the bedroom and Bentley will eat in the bathroom. Once they're all settled in and used to each other, I plan to go back to food in the kitchen.