Think that's bad? A few weeks ago I caught my cat chewing on the RAM connectors on my disassembled PC's motherboard. mmm, expensive electronics, yum yum!

Edited by author 05-01-2003 03:35 PM
I had a bunny and a lot of cables. You just need to buy a bunch of that spiral cable wrap. This topic is brought up in all of the "owning your new housebunny" books. Otherwise most house bunnies would go up in puffs of smoke.

My rabbit has eaten through 2 separate Powerbook power adaptors. Those things are not cheap!

The lot of the bunny is a poor one. People buy them for their children as they look cute, but they are not really suitable for children, then the rabbits get abandoned or stuck in small hutches and ignored.

Sadly our 3 greyhounds would object to us having a house rabbit - well, they would love to have one in the house, if you get my meaning.

Rabbits love to chew on cords, but will are happy to accept substitutes if you make them available. Check out the House Rabbit Society for tips and information. We've had rabbits in our house since 1986 and I've only had to replace a few cords (my fault, they weren't secured).

It is not necessarily a plus to have RF energy in your living environment when you can avoid it. Esp'ly when it's near the water resonance like 802.11b is.

Bring forth the holy hand grenade.

BTW, what do you mean by "near the water resonance like 802.11b" ?

That spiral wrap won't stop a rabbit's teeth unless it's metal.
That steel spiral conduit you can use for home electrical wiring would be a better idea.

The tubing to protect wires doesn't have to "stop a rabbit's teeth". It just just makes it less interesting to them. Thin wires look like vines or plants to rabbits, a little nibble though tells them it's not, they move on. I have four rabbits that run around the house, and don't have any problem with them chewing the wires as i keep them up and not so tempting looking.

nah nah, just put tabasco (or something suitably spicy) on the cords and the bunnies won't eat it. works like a charm.

Ah, bunnies are wimps. Truly stupid animals don't just chew through the wires, they eat them, and then later need to have the mass of cable surgically removed.

Bad dog. BAD DOG.

I've had a couple of house bunnies and they are hard on computer cables. Mice cords especially tempt them. My cure: wireless mice and keyboards, tubing and baffles. It can be done and having a bunny around makes it worthwhile. There's just something about working at the computer and turning to see a bunny looking up at you that can't be equalled.

Not just bunnies. We've lost a number of cables to guinea pigs.

well, I suppose that's better than losing guinea pigs to cables.

I think it's a demon bunny. Note black fur and psychotic, red eye...

And another tip to discourage chewing - paint on that bitter stuff people use to stop nail-biting. Or oil of cloves is good too. (We have a puppy dismantling the house. We know these things)