Biting People and Wires

[MomnMalachi]

Malachi is my sweet and adorable little man who has recently decided biting people and wires is fun. He's getting better with not biting people since I used the different pieces of advice onthis thread, but I cannot get him to stop with the wires!! I'm terribly worried he'll electrocute himself...and I'm nervous about taking him out because he constantly finds them. Help!

Concerned birdie mom :confused:

[bellarains]

They make covers for wires. I'm sure you can get them at a Home Depot, Lowe's etc.... they are hollow platic time contraptions thay you can put over wires. You can group them and put them inside, or you can put them on individual wires also. This would keep that little bugger from being able to bite them, and they are great at keeping wiring from getting all tangled up also:)

[LauraO]

You might also try giving Malachi some of his own chew things so he doesn't go for the wires. Mine like straws, wooden chopsticks, plastic chains, etc.

[sdgilley]

Great ideas from Lori & Laura. My lovies get into mischief pretty quick, so I have to supervise them. If they get into too much (two boys) I put them in thier cage to chill out. If they get really bad, I trim their wings. Safety is the first concern. :)

[MomnMalachi]

Thanks all...I'll have to try those.... The chew toys don't seems to work (between his grandmothers he has an overabundance...lol) but my hubby might do that for the wires. He's going okay...responding better to the "no bite" so I'm encouraged that maybe my house won't have little triangle beak marks all over it!! :) lol Thanks for your help.

[Wheeliegirl]

I recently discovered that Peachie had been chewing on the cords behind my printer. I'm at a loss! I have it covered with a blanket to keep her from chewing on the buttons and climbing inside, but she is still going up under the blanket and playing around in the back.

I'm so thankful that she has not hurt herself! I don't know how to get her to stop either. She doesn't like to chew on anything that I give her permission to chew. I've tried toothpicks, wooden chew toys, etc, but she leaves them alone and finds other things to get into. What a little stinker she is!

All I can say is that I have to constantly watch her, and just like a toddler, if they get quiet they are probably up to no good! She pretty much wanders all over the house at her leisure, but mostly stays near me, except when she is trying to figure out ways in which to get up onto the kitchen counter where all the "fun" shiney stuff is.

Oh, I have a funny story...and a scarey story. One time she got up onto the kitchen counter and I could not figure out how she did it. I had everything out of her reach that she could have climbed up. A few days later I watched her as she waddled into the kitchen, went under my range and was there making all kinds of noises and talking to me the whole time. I was TERRIFIED! Thank God the oven and stove were not on! It seemed like she was under there for a lifetime. Since I'm in a wheelchair I could not move the range out from the wall and I began to panic and started to cry because I thought she would get stuck inside and I was helpless to help her. But soon she popped out the top/back of the stove and was very proud of her accomplishment I must say! Boy did I give her a lecture!

After that I had to devise ways in which to block her from going under the range. She could remove the sticks and towels I put under there, so I attached two long sticks that go behind the legs of the range that she can neither pull our or push out of the way.

How smart they are! This intelligence gets them into very dangerous situations.

Well, that's my story.....must go back to making sure she doesn't chew anything she shouldn't be!

[Blossom]

:omg: :omg: :omg:
I would have been a miserable ball of tears if I had to watch that happen! Silly little girl! So glad you figured out how to block her gymnastics!

I remember when my daughter was little, and I was torn between scolding her for doing something dangerous or praising her for doing something brave - :rofl: