[PaulHoule]

I've got the opposite problem.

We have a food bowl in a room upstairs that gets a lot of indoor wildlife. (There were two times we had a river of ants moving through the room migrating from one place to another, then we never saw the ants again.)

Two months ago I saw a mouse climb into the cat bowl, grab a piece of kibble, then run into a whole between the floorboards and the wall. We have two housecats, one of which is highly aggressive to other cats, but despite numerous conversations (we show each other things all the time) I could not get the cats to recognize the opportunity here and had to use traps and institute a strict policy of putting the food back in storage when the cats were done feeding.