My experience is if you teach them from when they're young by watching them carefully on their free outings and as soon as they go to the cables or try to chew on them you tell pick them up and actually tell them "No!", if that doesn't work, then catching them in the act and putting them immediately back into their cage and cutting their outing short every time they do it has also worked in the past for me. If they already have a habit of this you may have to diligently catch them in the act and cage them for a while, they should learn eventually. They're very smart and you can teach them pretty easily, I've taught my current rat not to walk across my keyboard when she's on my desk, she learned it very quickly, I just had to tell her no and block her path when she tried to walk across it. Now she always walks around it.is there any way to stop these baby monsters from snipping every electric cord in half? other than restricting their outings... begging them not too hasn't helped. neither has pretending they'll never do it again
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