My cat Hope chews speaker wires.
My cat Hope chews speaker wires.
Which is problematic because I have a surround system in my room with 5 speakers all requiring wires plus a sub woofer with a 20 foot cable.
When I first got her I ran the wires under my bed but that had to go. I then ran them around the trim of the room & wrapped them in white electrical tape in the few places they show along the walls.
But she somehow found a way to access the longest wire & chewed through it. I ran another one & concealed it everywhere she could possibly access it. Then wound it with tape to the others so she wont mess with them & so it doesn’t look like crap.
She likes to sit behind my TV & I have click ties on the wires back there which she tries to chew on if the ends are sticking out so I had those all arranged semi- catproof fashion. This afternoon when I went to watch Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia while I ate my lunch, I discovered my center channel speaker did not work. Examining it more closely it appears that its cable has teeth marks in it. Yay! Back to the drawing board.
Cats may be forever, but….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So I ran a new thicker wire & arranged it so she cannot access it anywhere. Taped it along the trim of the tv & so forth. Then I pulled my bed out from the wall & double checked the rest of the speakers. When I did this, my headphones got bumped right at the jack & stopped working.
I have had two pairs of Bose $100 dollar in ear headphones that this already happened to. I like these particular Phlips headphones because they have rich bass, but I have already lost 1 pair at the jack so I am back to my Sonys.
Why the fuck can’t they design a jack plug that doesn’t just get fucked every time someone bumps it. The Sony’s are the cheapest, & have an L plug that is sturdier than any of the super expensive ones. Also the more expensive ones are a cluster fuck in terms of chord management. They have like 20 feet of cchord & catch on everything you walk past.
Such are my holiday woes.
>>>>>>>>>>
Best part of my day so far; when I walked in with the new five feet of wire to replace that which was chewed through, hope came running up & ran in circles around me like it was a new toy for her.
The crap weasel herself:
Which is problematic because I have a surround system in my room with 5 speakers all requiring wires plus a sub woofer with a 20 foot cable.
When I first got her I ran the wires under my bed but that had to go. I then ran them around the trim of the room & wrapped them in white electrical tape in the few places they show along the walls.
But she somehow found a way to access the longest wire & chewed through it. I ran another one & concealed it everywhere she could possibly access it. Then wound it with tape to the others so she wont mess with them & so it doesn’t look like crap.
She likes to sit behind my TV & I have click ties on the wires back there which she tries to chew on if the ends are sticking out so I had those all arranged semi- catproof fashion. This afternoon when I went to watch Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia while I ate my lunch, I discovered my center channel speaker did not work. Examining it more closely it appears that its cable has teeth marks in it. Yay! Back to the drawing board.
Cats may be forever, but….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So I ran a new thicker wire & arranged it so she cannot access it anywhere. Taped it along the trim of the tv & so forth. Then I pulled my bed out from the wall & double checked the rest of the speakers. When I did this, my headphones got bumped right at the jack & stopped working.
I have had two pairs of Bose $100 dollar in ear headphones that this already happened to. I like these particular Phlips headphones because they have rich bass, but I have already lost 1 pair at the jack so I am back to my Sonys.
Why the fuck can’t they design a jack plug that doesn’t just get fucked every time someone bumps it. The Sony’s are the cheapest, & have an L plug that is sturdier than any of the super expensive ones. Also the more expensive ones are a cluster fuck in terms of chord management. They have like 20 feet of cchord & catch on everything you walk past.
Such are my holiday woes.
>>>>>>>>>>
Best part of my day so far; when I walked in with the new five feet of wire to replace that which was chewed through, hope came running up & ran in circles around me like it was a new toy for her.
The crap weasel herself: