Wanted - One Ant Eater !!

Well the weather has been glorious - a bit too hot even !

We spent the weekend in and out of the garden cutting the lawn where our two trusty guinea pig lawn mowers " Daphne" and "Poops" had failed in their duty to munch.

In between the clumps of daisies, dandelion stems and general moss we discovered several mounds of earth. Having poked them we unearthed several fairly large ant mounds complete with red ants, black ants , ants with wings and ants carrying eggs !

Now whilst I love all creatures I really do not like ants at all - think it stems from my child hood when I was allocated a desk at school in a new class complete with old apple core and its occupants. I was not allowed to move and hated every moment having ants crawling over me until I really threw a wobbly and eventually got moved!

We must have had approximately 10 or so mounds of varying size dotted around the grass. Not being able to put down powder because of the guinea pigs I am afraid to say that I resorted to the boiling water treatment - I apologise to any ant lovers !

I know that they are very hard working , ingenious creatures but I just don't want them in my back yard. I had found a couple in doors recently - any more then I'm moving !

This got me thinking about ant eaters - I've seen them in our local zoo - absolutely beautiful creatures. I'd love to hire one - just for the day - it would give the ant eater a day out , do me a favour and save the zoo pounds in food !

It could become a real trend and make the zoo a fortune - I know that the zoo sell " adoptions" - perhaps I could chance my luck with adoptive parent status !