Juliet Taylor
Regular Member
Hello my lovely Charlotte has got into a habit when out of her cage to chew through wires. Any advice as to preventing this would be lovely.
Yes, whether you have parrots of other pets, run your electrical cables through tubing. You can get those clear flexible aquarium tubing.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PVC-Tube-Clear-Plastic-Hose-Pipe-Food-Grade-Fish-Pond-Car-Aquariums-Air/221293533874?hash=item33861f5ab2:m:mvmCix3J9tOeCuV7Mku8q0w&var=520178658701&_sop=12&_sacat=20754&_nkw=aquarium+tube&_from=R40&rt=nc
I've even used a plastic drink bottle, cut the top and bottom off and you got a clear plastic pipe.
You can also get some cable trunking
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/D-Line-TV-Electrical-Cable-Wire-Tidy-Plastic-Cover-Wire-Hide-Trunking-PVC-Dline/322811967324?hash=item4b2917b75c:m:mpv8_gNSys1p-_r4PIZo9_A&var=511942769742&_sop=12&_sacat=0&_nkw=electric+cable+cover&_from=R40&rt=nc
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electrical-Cable-Trunking-3M-PVC-Wire-Conduit-Plastic-Cover-White-All-Lengths/322921669792?hash=item4b2fa1a4a0:m:m1I69iPWAKlESrKJF5MP8xg&var=512041060362&_sop=12&_sacat=0&_nkw=electric+cable+cover&_from=R40&rt=nc
Even if these are all not parrot proof, they will buy you time in getting the parrot away from the cable before they chew through the cable. Saying that, Princess Mia manage to take apart one of our able trunking a week ago and she chewed through the internet cable. So we suddenly lost our internet connection. Fortunately I manage to reconnect the wires using a connecting block.
It these wires that are way above 12V that you need to worry about, it's not just about the damage causes to your wires, but also could be dangerous to your bird as they could get electrocuted.
do not assume nov voltage wires are safer than mains voltage , this would be a mistake , voltage will not kill anyone including a parrot BUT the amps that the voltage carries will 100% kill
I have no idea that is all she could manage to tell me.