Anti Ant Cat Bowl

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I have tried multiple outside food bowls to keep ants from in-golfing the food supply. Most of them have moats for water but in the summer time the water supply dries up in less than a day and the ants move in. I needed something with a larger water capacity to last at least 24 hours. The outside diameter measures 180mm and the inside area that holds the food or bowl measures 85.5. It will hold a standard cat food bowl but may need to be scaled up to fully seat depending on the bowl size. I personally just dump the food directly into the print without a bowl. I will note that because of the waters buoyancy the ants can allot of times still walk across the moat area. To prevent that I pour at least a table spoon of white vinegar into the water and that does the trick.