How to stop my cat from chewing plastic
Cats frequently chew on plastic wrappers and hard plastics, forcing owners to wake up from a dead sleep to chase them down and remove the hazard. Beyond ruining the owner's sleep, this behavior often leads to expensive vet bills. Some owners attempt to stop the biting by applying bitterant spray.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Chasing the cat down to take the wrapper awayDid this help you?
- 2Applying bitterant spray to hard plasticsDid this help you?
- 3Hiding mail and chewable items in a special boxDid this help you?
- 4Putting sticky velcro pads over the scratched areas and attaching a cardboard scratcher to them.Did this help you?
- 5Accepting the damage as inevitable and forfeiting the apartment security deposit.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm so happy I own my house because not only are my door jams all like this there is also no paint on the walls in my bathroom surrounding all 3 litter boxes.”source ↗
“Sometimes I wake up from a dead sleep to hear my cat chewing on a plastic wrapper, then I have to chase them down to get it”source ↗
“My three babies have six cat trees all with eight scratch posts per…yes two trees per cat my mother gifts me one every so often to the point I collect spare parts to replace the bottom posts when it’s time. My doors still end up like that”source ↗
“Yeah and We have the vet bill to prove it.”source ↗
“Mine loves biting hard plastic. I bought bitterant spray...”source ↗
“Mine will tear up the carpet right next to his scratching post. 🙃”source ↗
“Onw of mine does this to ask for food in the kitchen to the top of the cabinet doors.”source ↗
“The walls are scratched and the carpets have holes 😭”source ↗