Kitten Biting Electrical Wires

My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

in article , John Ross Mc Master
at wrote on 10/14/04 9:51 PM:

My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

Get some tubing from the hardware store or cable covers. (Looks better than
the duct tape I used when mine were kittens. Worked though, I bundled
anything hanging together, and any thing laying I taped down to the floor).
You can try apple bitter on them, but to me, the safest thing to do (and it
does tidy it all up) is to encase them.

in article , John Ross Mc Master
at wrote on 10/14/04 9:51 PM:

My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

Get some tubing from the hardware store or cable covers. (Looks better than
the duct tape I used when mine were kittens. Worked though, I bundled
anything hanging together, and any thing laying I taped down to the floor).
You can try apple bitter on them, but to me, the safest thing to do (and it
does tidy it all up) is to encase them.

Grannick's Bitter Apple
http://www.bitterapple.com/shelf.html

John Ross Mc Master wrote:
My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

--
John Kimmel


I think it will be quiet around here now. So long.

Grannick's Bitter Apple
http://www.bitterapple.com/shelf.html

John Ross Mc Master wrote:
My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

--
John Kimmel


I think it will be quiet around here now. So long.

In article . net,
guynoir wrote:

Grannick's Bitter Apple
http://www.bitterapple.com/shelf.html

This is great. It doesn't say there's one for cats -- do you just get
the one for dogs?

--
http://www.mindspring.com/~slywy/

In article . net,
guynoir wrote:

Grannick's Bitter Apple
http://www.bitterapple.com/shelf.html

This is great. It doesn't say there's one for cats -- do you just get
the one for dogs?

--
http://www.mindspring.com/~slywy/

From: John Ross Mc Master

My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

What we did was to get some clear plastic tubing available at most any hardware
store. Then we slit in lengthwise and stuffed the cords inside.

Lauren
________
See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe
Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html
http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html
Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm

From: John Ross Mc Master

My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

What we did was to get some clear plastic tubing available at most any hardware
store. Then we slit in lengthwise and stuffed the cords inside.

Lauren
________
See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe
Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html
http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html
Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm

"John Ross Mc Master" wrote in message
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My 8 week old kitten, Cinder, is biting Cat5 cables. More seriously,
she's started biting 120 volt electrical wires.

Any ideas on stopping this behaviour?

Cover wires with automotive vacuum hosing; very strong thick walls nearly
impossible to bite through (designed to withstand very high engine temps),
very flexible, comes in very long lengths - sold by the foot or yard, easy
to cut to size, large assortment of inside diameters permits covering single
wires or bundling several wires, and the hosing tastes absolutely horrible.

No need to unplug wires, simple slice the hose lengthwise on one side and
slip over the wires. Your wire-biting problem is solved.

Phil