My olfactory sense is so acute that I can smell the ink from junk mail in my mailbox, which has a door into the house, across a room or further away still. I had all kinds of problems with roomie cooking smells, her choices of fragrances, etc. so I empathize.It's not even hot. She took a few nibbles. Then she was just sitting next to it like maybe I'd take a hint and bring her something else. I came down and took a couple of morsels off the plate onto the carpet. She ate those. I figured a little food in her is better than none at all. I'm not going to press the issue and let her tell me if she's going to finish lunch. If she's not going to finish it, we'll switch back to the other CBD and see if that's the issue. That salmon oil is pungent. Even two drops is enough for me to smell it. So if she's really not crazy about the stuff, that could certainly be putting her off.
Trace the ant path back to its source and create a moat of either cinnamon (never worked that well for me) or diatomaceous earth. Better if you can just pour the DE into the source if it's a hole or something. It's not very humane if you're an all creatures lover. Personally, I have a four limb limit in my home. Anything with more than four limbs is going to be shown the door if it's cooperative, or the shoe if it's not.
Ants are great. OUTSIDE. They're here in huge numbers and I can't tell where they're coming from. Under the house, most likely. I keep mopping them up. I've gotten my Fool-A-Bug cat bowls out.