I’ve been struggling on and off for a while now with my old MacBook Pro MagSafe 2 85W adapter. A while ago, Bailey, my male feline decided that the power cable from the block to the magnetic adapter would be a great thing to nibble on. I know it was a cat, because the insulator had sharp little teeth marks all along it, and I know it was Bailey because he has killed Apple EarBud cables in the past.

The cable for my MacBook has been a source of irritation for a while. My electrical tape patch apparently wasn’t enough to restore the accessory to full working state. There are times when I plug it in and no charging, or if I can get it to charge, sometimes when I move the Macbook the power subsystem detects something awful and immediately terminates the power in the laptop. Power failures like this are annoying because everything pops off, no shutdown, just instant-off. So earlier today I went out, ponied up some more money to deal with the Bailey damage, about $60 bucks after some Best Buy Bucks were on my account that I used to defray the cost a little bit.

So now I keep a constant vigil against cat related IT damage. While I was away in Dallas for work, the adapter started giving me fits there, but I was able to coax it back to life, and it didn’t cause any hard resets for which I am very thankful. So now I have to throw the old one away and make sure there aren’t any more chewing misadventures for this cable.

I got to thinking about how I charge the laptop at night, and what I might do is plug the bigger cord into the business end of the wall wart and put everything in my backpack to charge up. That way it’s all out of sight, out of mind.

Very Naughty Kitties!