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She especially likes the wiring leading into the outside AC unit. I’ve tried electrical tape and duct tape, but she’s persistent. Can anybody on the Forum recommend some strong nylon or mesh I can get at Loews or Home Depot that I can wrap around it, or maybe rigid or flexible PVC I can cut to size? What’s best? Thanks in advance! | ||
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A Grateful American |
This. Sealproof.  If it will keep him out, it should keep out your pup.  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
It may sound a little mean however; a Navy Captain friend of mine had a small dog (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) who did the same. He connected up a 9v battery (the kind you place on your tongue for a small jolt) to a couple wires and let the dog "discover" it. Captain said the dog took three times to figure it (dumb dog) before not doing it anymore. Just ensure you are NOT using anything stronger than what a zap collar puts out if you go this route. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Your outside wiring to an A/C unit is supposed to be in conduit such as above. It's a good product. | |||
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Put some ass scorcher hot sauce on it | |||
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THIS!! _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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Are you kidding, if the poor dog chews through the 2 lines at the same time and gets a dose of 240 volts, the OP will have a barbequed dead dog. | |||
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Light coating of Vaseline and sprinkle on some cayenne pepper. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Unless someone else has a rrecipe, Old wine bottle (or mason jar -- etc) Cut jalpeno peppers (slilce into slices) Fill bollte/jar with peppers fill to top with water In a few days, apply to where you don't want dogs or other pets -- works for me. Tinyman ______________________________ Stupid people are like glo-sticks. I want to shake the shit out of them till the light comes on | |||
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Firearms Enthusiast |
Most likely its the small 4 wire thermostat wire that the dog is chewing on. I really can't see any respectable installer running ac power open air without being in a conduit. Around here its standard for the thermostat control wires to run open air from the house to the unit. | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
Until I read this, I figured that this would ultimately be a self correcting problem. Unpleasant, but self correcting. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Wrap it in chicken wire? Or put a chicken wire fence around the A/C unit? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
Hot wire, like they use for cow fences...he’ll only do it once. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Ammoholic |
The liquid tight the monkey posted is a great idea and is a best practice for installing A/C power. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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If you don't want to have to remove the wire to run it through a conduit, you can wrap it in a spiral hydraulic hose protector. You can even double wrap it. I use this to protect hydraulic hoses from abrasion. It is pretty tough stuff. https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Cut...-Black/dp/B07NMTQ69P | |||
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I like Mike's idea, get a cattle fence transformer and wrap a bare steel wire around the lead you want to protect. Scotties are tough little dogs so the first jolt will just make him mad. Then he go at the wire again and get the second jolt. After that he'll shake it off and test the wire again just to show he's not afraid. After that he'll stay away from it because he'll consider the wire bewitched and it's just bad karma to be poking at a witch. I've stopped counting. | |||
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Spinnin' Chain |
This!! Or something like it. Great stuff, easy to spin on and cut to length and not requiring any disassembly/reassembly. Might even entertain the dog for a lifetime. Any hydraulic shop should have it locally, in a wide variety of sizes. | |||
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