1year kitten bites telephone/electrical cords.Help!

[BBelle]

Please help me find a way to stop my 1 yr old kitten from biting my telephone and electrical cords. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Do you know of any reason he might be doing this? Thanks

[jdf]

You might try something bitter tasting - wiping the cords end to end with bitter apple or tabasco sauce. When Ruby was a very young kitten, she went after a cord once and we were very careful after that to unplug cords or make them inaccessable to her - luckily she lost interest and it didn't become a problem. Even though you try making the coerds offensive to taste, it still might be a good idea to unplug any cord not being used at the moment. Another thing you might try is running cords through heavy plastic tubing - the kind some people ( not me cause I'm a slob) organize their computer cords with.

[davet]

telephone cords are not a big problem, ie very little jolt but electric cords and spoil a day...have had many pups and kittens severly burned...if fowl tastes don't work then either find another place for the cords or get shelding at Radio Shack