Alright, we've been having a problem for a while now. We are absolutely pestered by the common housefly. We clean the house regularly and aren't hiding any corpses, but the house is completely riddled with flies, year-round. Obviously now with the warm summer weather, they're present in an abundance though. We have fly-tapes hanging and they fill up quickly, but they're still around in abundance.
Now the most annoying thing about the fuckers is the catfood. We feed them wet/canned food once a day, next to their dry food (which they can eat throughout the day because we have a foodtower we keep filled up. Contrary to what you might expect, the cats are skinny af, they get a lot of exercize outside). During these hot days, if the cats leave only a scrap of wet meat, within 6 hours they can be filled up with maggots. We wash their bowls everyday. We circulate catfoodbrands. We tried cutting out wet food, but our stubborn cats will just go without eating for the remainder of the day. They only eat dryfood when they absolutely need (they're VERY picky). We know our dog-owning neighbours are struggling with lots of flies as well. We haven't asked them about any maggots though.
Litterbox is gone, too. They only defecate outside. Haven't found a catturd in the house since they were kittens.
I'm with my hands in my hair with this problem. I've had loads of cats in the past, but never experienced such a pest. Anyone any experience with housefly-problems, or petfood-problems like these? We're now trying to switch to (much) smaller portions on more intervals of the day, but I'm just baffled by how quickly their leftovers are affected. Surely this shit can't be normal?
Anyone know any other solutions to flies? Even if they're oldwives remedies I want to try them D: