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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Get a cat and solve both issues

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep telling my cat to be a hunter, and all she does is roll around on the floor and go "merop? Mrrrrr? MEROWP!" as the insects dance around.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Mine stare at them, maybe do a light paw and meow like a maniac at them, they're not good pest control.

Luckily, the gratuitous amount of spiders seem to do their job, there's a lot of lake flies!midges/gnats but I've never seen them or ants in the house, just spiders.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

downside: still got bugs
upside: holy shit adorable

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

I have 3 cats. Luckily they don't hurt the spider. Sadly, they won't attack the flies though.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Cats make for pretty poor insect control. They mostly kill spiders, not "pest" insects.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But don’t get my cat.