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> discourage pets from chewing on power cables around the house Apparently rodents eat some car cables. The cables should be coated in some kind of solidified
by dheera 4y ago
> discourage pets from chewing on power cables around the house
Apparently rodents eat some car cables. The cables should be coated in some kind of solidified bitter hot sauce. Bittrex and ghost peppers, perhaps.
- mc32 4y agoI think birds for example don't register capsaicin. Point being, not all animals taste things the same or are affected negatively by the same things.
- flangola7 4y agoDo they still suffer the inflammation and other effects? Our eyeballs don't have taste buds but habanero juices will still disable you if they come into contact.
- fjkdlsjflkds 4y agoThe burning sensation of "spicy" things is not mediated by "taste buds". For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemesthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemesthesis
- FreeFull 4y agoOn the other hand, I wouldn't usually expect birds to gnaw on car cables, and all mammals do register capsaicin. Capsaicin is used semi-frequently to help against rodents gnawing on cables.
- throwanem 4y agoIt's also used to produce suet cakes that squirrels and raccoons won't steal. Those things have a lot of it, too, enough so I wear nitrile gloves to handle them - worse even than mincing a handful of habaneros, you just can't wash the stuff off.