Tips To Keep Your Pet Safe From Electrical Hazards In Your Absence

Having pets around is fun, especially in this pandemic where you tend to stay indoors like never before. Small pets like kittens and puppies tend to get themselves into danger in ways you never anticipate. 

Your pup and kitty do not understand the dangers looming over them when they go all over playfully chewing everything, including the extension cords. Pups sneaking into places they aren't safe is part of their game. 

Therefore, you aren't supposed to keep repairing the damaged electrical cables. You need to protect them from damage as you save your pets from electrocution and significant fire hazards. 

Luckily, there are many easy ways to make sure your buddies are safe even when you are not around. 

Below are seven tips to ensure your pet and home safety from unnecessary electrical hazards, especially in your absence. 

Invest in the Best Electrical Cords

Paying a premium for simple stuff can be irritating. However, with the small buddies around, it is the best choice where electrical hazards are inevitable. Cheaper electronic equipment and cords break easily due to factors like overheating. They are also most likely to spark, causing shock on the nearby pets.

Ensure you purchase the best quality to avoid unnecessary dangers. For outdoor devices, a 14 gauge extension cord is necessary as the pets like playing out, especially when busy working and not seeing them. Investing in the most expensive devices will save you money in the long haul.

Keep Dangling Cords Away

Pets will always want to chew visible cords. Like babies, they also undergo teething causing them to desire chewing any available object. You should save them the temptation by keeping the cables out of their reach. 

Tucking them away using protective covers will make the chewing harder and prevent your pet from the unappealing act. You can also pet-proof the cords using an unpleasantly tasting spray to keep them away. Lemon, vinegar, or hot sauce can serve the trick.

Invest Your Time in Training Your Pets

Luckily, pets tend to learn things just like tiny babies. If you show them that certain areas around your home are not allowed, they will know, and you'll likely not find them there. What you need is to learn the correct way to train each of them. 

For instance, with kittens, spraying unpleasant-tasting substances will automatically keep them away. On the other hand, dogs, rabbits, or pigs respond to sharp noises like claps whenever they come close to restricted areas.

Taking time to train them can save you some unseen hassle. However, when training pets, you need a lot of patience, if you can't, pets are simply not meant for you!

Keep Your Pets Busy by Giving Them Plenty of Toys

Whenever you are away, pets tend to get easily bored and will most likely find themselves doing these vices. To restrain them, keep them busy with lots of toys to ensure they play for the better part of your absence. 

Teach them fun ways to play with the toys. For instance, show them how to do a scavenger hunt by hiding their food or puzzle toys around the home. They will keep hunting for their treats, and without knowing, you are back.

Put Guards Around Devices Like Air Conditioners

For the mostly left devices, you should erect a guard or small fence around them. When machine washing your clothes, for example, you could be doing other chores as you wait for your machine to clear the heap and your pup, on the other hand, is busy chewing the cord without your knowledge. Gauging the devices comes in handy in restraining your pets.

Consider Having an Electrical-Free Area

While you are away, it can be hard to keep the pets fully restrained from tampering with the electric wires. Out of curiosity and boredom, it is most likely to find them trying out the mess despite the training. You might want to gauge them in a zone free from cords and sockets, especially if you'll take long away from them. 

Therefore, consider erecting a small room within the home to keep them safe from shocks or fires. 

Be Careful With Plugged Sockets

Whenever you plug devices on the sockets, ensure they are fully plugged. Partially plugged prongs can pose a danger as curious mouths or noses can welcome deadly shocks. It would help if you also avoided overloading sockets as small pets can be entangled between them.

Still, on the sockets, it's wise to keep unused devices unplugged. If your pet chews a cord when you are asleep, the accident will be of lesser intensity than if the cable was plugged into the socket. Unplugging the unused cord will save you money in the long run. Make it normal.

Wrap Up

It can be hard to restrain your pets fully, but with little patience, you can manage. It would be best if you also had your electrical faults fixed by experts to avoid unnecessary hazards. In one way or another, pet electrocution can occur. Therefore you should seek to know what to do when this happens.