[Gemme]

Originally Posted by FireSignFemme

Well, Monte decided he needed a snack so while I was away he gnoshed on cords – telephone and computer. My son had just worked on the computer, got it up and running again and then a day later Monte turns around and munches on stuff, puts it out of commission. He bit the computer cord into three pieces. Today Jillian took me to buy some replacements, they had the phone cord but not the one we needed for the computer and she didn't want to go any place else to chase one down. And she said we couldn't use electrical tape because it was dangerous. Well my father showed me how to use it when I was about ten, I've been using it for decades and decades and never killed myself once yet, nor did his father or his father's father before them. It's not like lead paint, I'm not going to eat the stuff. Anyhow she bought these little metal connector things and now we're back in business. We've got a plan to keep it from happening again but oh he's frustrating me. I guess that's what happens if he wolfs down half a large can of cat food and is left with only a heaping bowl of crunchies while I'm gone for an hour – take that Mommy Dearest!

There's a spray you can use for the the things he chews on. I have a chewer too and had to use that until she was trained to avoid the electrical stuff. I used water bottles to squirt her in the process of training to speed things up and it worked. She doesn't chew cords. Of course, plastic toys, metal knobs and the cat carriers are still getting noshed on from time to time but they are less likely to kill her so I just divert her attention when I see her working on one of them.

For the record, I use electrical tape too. Although not suggested, it held my grinder together for a very long time so I'm partial to it myself.