Sparkles22
Brilliant_Rock
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One of my cats is 3 years old, and one of her favorite passtimes when we are not home is to chew on electrical cords. Here is what I have tried so far to get her to stop:
* bitter apple
* "yuk" paste (vet''s advice, but didn''t help)
* hiding and squirting her with a water bottle
* covering my wires with plastic tubing (somewhat helpful, at least only the plastic gets chewed)
I am so afraid she is going to electrocute herself!
Her chin will get all red and bumpy (so I have to put cream on her, which she hates
). I don''t know what else to do. Does anyone elses cat do this? I don''t think she is meaning to be destructive. I have to watch what toys I leave around as well because she EATS them! I can''t let her free feed because 1) she''s a pig and would eat it all and 2) she has to be on special food to prevent bladder stones. She is a good weight for her now of 12 lbs 5 oz, she doesn''t get too much food only 1/3 cup wet and 1/4 dry per day. She isn''t very active, and if she free feeds she gets up to like 18 lbs and can''t clean herself (but doesn''t eat her toys)
. She also chews on my statues, she chewed the fingers off one of my ceramic pieces (aparently she didn''t eat them though because I found gnawed off fingers on the floor), and a string off one of my husbands figures
.
HELP!
* bitter apple
* "yuk" paste (vet''s advice, but didn''t help)
* hiding and squirting her with a water bottle
* covering my wires with plastic tubing (somewhat helpful, at least only the plastic gets chewed)
I am so afraid she is going to electrocute herself!
HELP!