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How to stop cat chewing cables

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Polyethyl · 17/05/2017 21:01

My cat likes to chew my phone charge cable. I have had to replace the cable 4 times this year. Is there anything I can smear on the cable to stop her from wanting to chew it?

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Fluffycloudland77 · 17/05/2017 21:12

No they love phone cables. Lock her out of the room.

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Frenchfemme · 17/05/2017 21:19

Tabasco sauce stopped my Burmese.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 17/05/2017 21:22

That's not a great thing to do.

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Weedsnseeds1 · 17/05/2017 22:40

I found USB cables that are braided steel on the outside. Or thread through an offCut of garden hose.

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VioletBow · 17/05/2017 22:46

My cat used to do this when he was a kitten, his favourite was the router cable. At a check up at the vets they suggested buying some drinking straws for him to play with, and if we saw him going towards a cable distract him with them. He hasn't chewed a cable since and he is 5 now.
Can't have a drink with a straw in or he will steal it but I'd take that over destroying wires and cables Smile

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Wolfiefan · 17/05/2017 22:46

Hide cable.
Haha at training or dissuading a cat from doing anything! Grin

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