(which is another mild concern, more on that later)He will jump, try to catch flies with his paws, or snaps at them as they fly by with his mouth. It's actually great entertainment for him to stalk a house fly, he likes to corner them, he watches all intently, tail wagging....it's funny when he's looking around the room, his head zipping around in anticipation that he'll track it.
But he'll even go for ants. And there seems to be a particularly big problem this year. At least, I see them everywhere outside. All kinds. I mean, big, small, reddish, black, idk, i'm not an ant expert. I actually never knew they were any big deal until Ozzy decided to dig up an ant hill!
These were tiny black ants. I never really saw these before, or never took any note. Usually the tiny ones have been red.
Anyway, I called Ozzy away when I saw what he was digging at. I left it at that and continued my yardwork.
Later I noticed Ozzy kept pawing at his nose/beard. I thought it was itchy so I scratched his beard a bit while we were still outside. He had some debris in his beard which I just threw down on the ground without looking or thinking anything.
He kept messing with his beard though, like it was bothering him periodically throughout the rest of the day, but I couldn't pin point the problem.
Later as he was having a nap on the sofa and I thought i'd comb out his beard a bit. I combed out an ant!
As he moved a bit and adjusted, I found 2 more little ants on the blanket! I started combing a bit more and more and more ants started flooding out his beard with the comb! 
I started smooshing all the ants I combed out and meticulously went through the rest of his beard for more ants. He must have been snapping at the multitudes of tiny attack ants with his mouth because when I lifted his mustache, they were all around his lips! Half in his mouth. So many. And what were they doing there for so long? I think most of them had to be already chewed
I never thought ants were any big deal, mostly I just saw those big carpenter ants that are just a bit annoying here and there outside.
But I guess some ants are more territorial and apt to attack bite in herds especially when they feel threatened defending their queen. Like they all climbed into his beard in bite mode. I was really surprised how many there were. No wonder Ozzy was pawing at his beard! And how gross that we never noticed until a few hours later? Poor guy.
Luckily there didn't seem to be any problems after I got all the ants out, but my opinion on ants has changed a bit after this. Leave the ants alone!
The side note is that I want to do something to control the ants a bit. They haven't established inside, but I have found (or Ozzy did) 1 or 2 and i'm worried about a problem. But I don't want to use anything toxic because Ozzy eats the ants! Am I over thinking?
Anyone have any natural or safe tips to control ants? I haven't really looked yet, just curious if anyone had any tricks on hand. So far I sprinkled some cream of wheat cereal near any ant nests or where I see them. It's a natural bait so they bring it back to the nest. It's supposed to swell up with their inner fluids, and well, they blow up. But I haven't seen a reduction in ants.
