how do you stop rodents chewing cables?

I have never had rodends as pets (untrue: I had a rabbit when I was little but that doesn´t count). But my sister had problems with wild rodends at a countryside house where she wanted to plant again native trees. They ate the trees until my sister designed a wire mesh to place around the small tree trunks. I don´t know if that could be done in your case. And, how about placing sone of the wiring higher than their usual path? All this is just imagination. I do it better with someone else´s problems. My Lola (my dog) almost ate my house away last year, when she was a puppy.

hamsters and rabbits usually have their own cages to play in. and if u have rats, get an indoor cat. the rats will leave right away.

I haven't ever owned a rodent as a pet, however I have had friends with mice, rats, guinea pigs, etc. I know that rodents' teeth continue to grow (unlike ours) and that they need to chew/gnaw on things to wear them down otherwise they would eventually prevent it from eating. Maybe the way to treat the problem is to find something that your rats enjoy chewing more, since they are going to chew anyway. Perhaps to encourage them to swap to a new chew-preference, you may need to get something to mask the chew-scent on the wires. Your local pet store may have something, or I've heard of a RatAway product that removes their scent, but is not toxic or a pepper spray. If all else fails, you might just have to sit them down and give them a good talking to...lol. Threaten to put them in rat-balls. Do they make those?

feed the poor things!

Rodents must chew! It's not about food--it's about keeping their teeth filed down, & sharp enough for defense. So there are at least a couple of things you can do that should help. A long time ago, it was possible to buy a bottle of what was basically fingernail polish--& applied the same--but it had quinine in it. Mothers (mine included) would paint it on children's fingernails to make them stop biting their fingernails. Quinine is exceedingly bitter, & believe you me, if a mouse has a single taste bud in its head, it won't chew on that ghastly stuff! Just coat your wires with that! The second thing you need to do is related to the first part of paragraph one, "Rodents must chew." Since they actually do need to, I'd advise you to get something--wood, tough plastic such as covers those cables, & leave bits in their habitats. I would have thought a blue rabbit would have already known this stuff! Maggiepie "It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion." ~ Joseph Goebbels

This is always big issue for hamster owner.Lol.Their teeth continues to grow and that's the reason why they chew a lot.I've tried giving them wood and not interested of it and keeps chewing the cage.When my hamster starts to chew,I just normally bring her in the hamster ball for 15 minutes and she is not getting bored anymore and also tired chewing.I already trie apple bitter but well she likes it a lot.What kind of rodents do you have?

Don't let them run where the cables are?

I know what worked for my dogs but I am not sure if it would work for rats or not my dogs have had problems with chewing as puppies we took ground habenero pepper and mixed with water to make a paste and smeared the paste of the things the dog liked to chew on but shouldnt the dogs dont like the spiciness of the habenero and stopped chewing immediately

I have been having this same problem with our kittens. They completely chewed through some wires in my son's Nintendo Wii and have put teeth marks in other wires. We are hoping that it is just a phase that they are going through as they are still quite young and have just been spraying them with water when we see them anywhere near the area. This scares them off, but they return. Hopefully if we do it enough, then they will get a negative association in their brains with that part of the house.

Keep the rodents in their cage at night when you are sleeping. Then you can be sure that they are not chewing on your cables. My sons had 14 hamsters (Siberian, very cute!) and I made them keep the animals in a hamster cage, that had lots of tunnels for them to climb in and a wheel to keep them running etc.

Maybe encase the wires in a small sized poly-pipe. That's a special plastic for this purpose in Aus. They use the large stuff for plumbing and the smaller radius stuff for encasing wires that are exposed to the elements or similar.

When I had my Chinchillas they loved wires lol To be honest I just did my best to cover the Wires as no matter what we did they would not quit chewing them lol

I wish I could help you rabbit but I don't have any small critters so I don't know much about them. My big dog chewed through the power cord to my laptop once and somehow didn't get zapped but your rats are much smaller than a 65lb dog so I'm sure there is a danger to them. I sure hope you find a solution to this problem.

My ex-boyfriend and I had a rabbit and sometimes we took her out of the cage and the let her run around in our living room. One day my ex-boyfriend and I were eating breakfast in the kitchen while our rabbit was in the living room. When we finished our breakfast and wanted to put the rabbit back in the cage, we discovered that she had been eating our tv cable and our internet cable, and neither of them worked any longer. It was our own fault we should have been watching her instead of letting her run around alone, and since that time we became more careful. Now I have 6 rabbits, and I always watch them when I take them out of the cage. I don't have a solution to the problem the only thing we have done is to keep the rabbits away from rooms where there are cables or other things that they are not allowed to touch and I always watch them when they are out of the cage. One of my rabbits recently damaged my cell phone charger, but aside from that I think I have become better at preventing those things.