RE: Best Cord Protectors?

[Gordo and Janice]

Okay BB8, I used the things called spiral wrap.  I think they sell it in store at Home Depot still, at least where we are in Texas.  Gardner Bender is the manufacturer for what I have.  I couldn’t find it at Lowe’s in store or Walmart in store.  They are selling it on Walmart.com as a clearance item by a different manufacture I think.  But they are selling it at a bunch of different diameters.  Some humongous.  You only want the 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch, or 1/2 inch, I would think, for it to be practical.  But if you know what you are going to wrap with it, buy according to your needs.  Not sure if you are in the United States.  So not sure what stores you have where you are.  They also sell it on Amazon I believe (what isn’t sold on Amazon, right?).  

Back when I got mine they sold them 3 in a pack.  1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 inch diameter pieces by 3.5 ft long.  But now it appears they only sell them in a 2-pack (3/8 and 1/2), at Home Depot that is.  On Amazon they are apparently only one diameter but much longer pieces.  Anyhow, back when we bought it, we had to buy several because they were only 3.5 ft long.  But let me tell you very worth it.  Very versatile.  The cords do not come out when you move or bend it.  And because of the spiral they are very flexible.  You don’t need tape to keep it closed or keep the wires from slipping out anywhere along the length.  You can overlap them.  You can cut them to fit.  Cords can come into and leave the main bundle through the spirals at different points along the main bundle.  Most of my cords that were exposed and needed to be wrapped and bunny protected were individual cords.  Occasionally I wrapped two at a time and sometimes three.  There are pictures in images on the internet where you see the cords through the spiral wrap to the point it looks like a rabbit could get to them, but our cords were never exposed.  You just bunch the spiral wrap together and it stays nice with no cord visible or accessible.  In the 7 plus years we had the cords wrapped Icey never chewed into or through it.  And she was free roam 24/7. And she was definitely a cord chewer, like most.  We lost two corded computer mice and a phone charger before we knew what was going on and who was to blame, back at the beginning of our sessions of being educated by our rabbit.  Now every rabbit is different for sure.  Some very focused OCD rabbit with its mind set on destroying that cable protector could do it for sure, no doubt.  But what I noticed is Icey going over to the cord and trying to test it or get her teeth on it or mouth it and because of its nature (the hardness and smoothness of the plastic cord wrap as well as its tendency to roll around and slide around on the cord or cable) it wasn’t chew friendly or teeth friendly to get a good grab.  She would attempt a couple of test nibbles and it just wasn’t simple enough or easy enough so she would just pause, raise her head up, and move on.  She was also only 4.5 pounds too so a much bigger bunny may be able to mouth it much easier, you would think.  I don’t know.

Also certain cords or cables that I felt were more vulnerable in their location or out of my sight I would double wrap which is another bonus of this design of the spiral wrap.  The same size can wrap around each other because of the spiral nature.  However I would make it easier and wrap the 3/8 size over the 1/4 size or the 1/2 size over the 3/8 size.  Basically I used what I had however I needed.  I believe they come readily in black and a kind of opaque to clear.  There may be some colored ones but just black and the opaque were my choices in the store so I chose black.  Probably the only drawback, if you try really hard to find one, is the initial wrapping of the cord.  You have to wind it around and around and around and around.  Each spiral.  But once done, done.  

Okay I think I have exhausted that subject.  Now for the picture is worth a thousand words (fingers crossed).

Welp, as I feared.  Pictures are too big.  Don’t know how to lower the file size and if I did know, not sure what that would do to the viewing quality of the picture.  Charging battery to old camera.  Maybe it’s pictures will be smaller since it’s older.  Will post pics later if that procedure works.  Sorry.  One or two pictures would do you more good than everything I wrote.