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Protect wires, cables and pipes to damage from animals Them

Animals, especially rodents, causing untold damage to wires, cables and pipelines by chewing on these plastic products. chewing rodents because they (have their teeth grow throughout their lives and have worn at all times below), while deer and other animals chew in search of food or more out of boredom. Whatever the reason, why the act of chewing damage the wire or pipe them useless, or worse, creating a dangerous situation. At the very least, the damage can cause these animals lead to expensive repairs.

Particularly troublesome are rodents, which are present everywhere and can cause massive damage to power cables and wires in houses. They chew on plastic doors, Sidings, benches, plastic parts, cables, wires, automotive wiring – practically nothing. In the wild, several animals to chew plastic products such as plastic bins and containers, pipes and tubes. Rodents chewing on cables, you expose the cable inside of them, which may short-circuit and a fire.

How serious is the problem? Well, it ranges from mild to deadly.

Mild -

In response to a complaint about sagging cable and fuzzy TV reception, a Comcast crew discovers … the hanging cable was not the cause of poor reception – it was a hungry squirrel with an apparent penchant for rubber-like wiring. Yep seems, a rodent had chewed on his (or her) way in the wire that feeds the house and led to chaos.

– Bowie Blade News, Bowie, Maryland 30th November 2006

Troublesome -

The New Zealand Stock Exchange was forced to closed on Monday for several hours after the rodents apparently chewed through a fiber optic cable communication, leading to the collapse of the country's telecom network.

Rats are thought to have cable chewed on by a communication of the main north of the country Iceland. Services were then routed to different parts of, but at the same time, a Telecom New New Zealand worker accidentally damaged a second country in another part of the main line, which telecom infrastructure to collapse the national.

Trading on the New Zealand Stock Exchange was halted 11:01 of network failure and not start again because, to 04.00 clock, although the exchange stayed open for an additional 30 minutes until 5.30pm.

– Finextra.com 22 June 2005

Dangerous -

How hot it was during the recent heat wave? Hot enough about dozens of the city 250 000 Manhole covers pop covers. It is a recurrent semi-apocalyptic summer event here, sometimes with serious side effects. After an explosion in the Bronx, 27 July Six people by inhalation to the emergency room for smoke. Ten days earlier, in Queens, a lid was set up with enough life force to fire on two cars and set Cause the wiring to catch fire. So, how does this happen?

The electric cables of copper below the road is on the manhole walls and coat hung in isolation to crack the can and warp due to the age, chemical corrosion or hungry rats.

– New York Magazine, 14 August 2006

Potentially fatal -

… Video was shot by a long-term employees at the overhaul base at Kansas City International Airport. The Whistleblower did not want to be identified, but wanted a hidden secret aboard a Boeing 767 passenger plane suspend. The whistleblower said: "We had the chairs and take off that's when all the mice running around, looked at the floor and ran one of the mechanics in the arm. "The aircraft arrived in Missouri April 30.

The whistleblower said: "There is feces all along this edge right here. It is all over the plane." The whistleblower said Workers found nests in air vents and dead mice in emergency oxygen masks. When mice were hungry, they ate insulation and chewed through wires. "If they shorted themselves and caused a fire, it would go through the cabin so fast, we might have lost some lives, "said the whistleblower.

– Ksdk-TV, St. Louis, MO, 12 July 2006

The research

So, why animals are attracted to wires, cables and other plastics? Studies of animal behavior have shown why animals have to plastics products – the plasticizer and the aromatic scents of the polymers can be drawn, the bright colors and the texture of polymer products responsible for all the animals in plastic, put the goods.

One solution is a combination Denatonium benzoate, and capsaicin. Denatonium benzoate is a compound that is extremely bitter, so bitter in fact that only a few grains would bring in a glass of water when it absolutely inedible by a human or an animal. In addition, a synthetic compound, which is like the hottest, sharpest pepper in the world, but hundreds of thousands Times hotter. Pure capsaicin is so hot that a single grain would be the size of a grain of salt much hotter than a bowl of jalapeno peppers.

The solution

What research has shown that animals chew on plastics, because they look good, smell good and taste good. A Combination of capsaicin and denatonium benzoate changed the appeal in two of the three. These changes to successfully resolve the problem of animal damage, whether Grizzly bears in North America, Woodpeckers in Norway, birds or insects everywhere in Italy.

A combination of work on the denatonium benzoate following five principles,

1. Aversion – By adding an extremely-bitter, foul-tasting property to the cable sheath or plastic part

1. Discomfort – By adding an extremely hot property that causes severe distress to the mucous membrane of the animal

1. Fear – by associating the smell of capsaicin and denatonium benzoate with the painful experience

2. Training – By the animal, biting into products with a product with a combination of denatonium benzoate and capsaicin produced a very unpleasant experience, the change of behavior leads and the animal avoids these products in the future

1. Association and conditioning – not only that the animal remember the bad experience, it has been shown that the animal is on the information on his descendants. Fear of unpleasant reaction and reaction to other animals in the area communicates

Environmental Concerns

We will inflict through the principle of no harm, People, plants or animals and no damage resulted to the environment. Our approach is not to poison the animal or add dangerous chemicals. With a combination of denatonium benzoate and capsaicin meets these objectives. In addition, our approach has been to use environmentally friendly products that are not fast in the ground water resources and the breakdown force in the environment.

The conclusions

It is possible to actually train animals and their behavior To change to polymer objects with animal repellents

Animals will not be damaged or damage to the environment could not by the use of toxic animal repellent objects are avoided in the plastic

Damage caused by animals can be completely controlled without injury to the animals

Repulsion reaches a maximum by the addition of animal repellents, the real focal point in plastic

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