How a Kitty Invented the Moatster

Feeding her meant sitting a bowl of food outside until her bravery increased to match her cuteness.

Trouble started immediately in the form of ants. Almost as soon as her food was available for her, it would be swarmed by them. Something had to be done.

We tried moving her bowl to another area, but the ants found it just as quickly. Then one day after a rain, we noticed ants navigating around puddle after puddle and the idea came like a flash!

Running inside, a spreadable margarin container's lid was retrieved, placed overturned under her food bowl and filled with water, creating...a moat.

The lid was a hurried makeshift solution, but it worked! No ant can cross the water, so no ant could get our precious new friend's food.

...several years later...

A summer picnic held at what seemed to be ant headquarters, caused the memory of that solution to become fresh in our minds, and...

The Moatster was born!
Our beverages were forever saved!

...and that cute little hungry kitten...

...eventually decided we weren't that scary, afterall.

It all began with a kitty who showed up at our door hungry,
but in no hurry to trust the big scary humans and come inside.