Sounds like my kitchen. Try baits designed for pharoah or carpenter ants.
There are other names for these little buggers, and fumigation does no good.
Think of Mongo in Blazing Saddles: "Don't shoot him, you'll only make him
mad.."

You will just have to find the right bait so the food gets back to the
queen.
"Becky Taylor" wrote in message
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My family has had a problem for a while now during the summer with tiny
little (about 1/16", if that) red/orangish ants that have been plaguing
out
kitchen. They used to be coming from the drain or the "seam" where the
sink
met the counter, but I just had an incident where they had come from
underneath the moulding to, for the first time, go after our dogs' food.
(Other times, they've been attracted to remains of other protein foods in
our sink - hamburger grease and residue, scraps of eggs, etc.)

Dismantling the counter to take care of this would be difficult, and
fumigation would be a near-impossibility - we have two dogs and two cats
and no other place to stay. They haven't proved a big problem - just a
quick mop-up of they and their trails when they every few days or so
ppear - but, of course, I'm unnerved by a resident insect population in
the house, and the dog food thing is not good. These ants don't seem to
be
attracted to the typical supermarket "big ant" bait traps. Are there any
steps I can take to get rid of them - and what kind of ant _are_ they?
Many thanks for any help.