How Can I Cat-Proof an Emergency Pull-Cord?

[Rackonteur]

This morning my neighbor’s playful young cat pulled the emergency pull-cord, setting off the attached alarm in the apartment as well as the one at the reception desk. Result:: neighbor woke up panicking from the alarm and the night desk clerk pounding on her door yelling “Are you all right?”

All i can find online are cleats to pet- and baby-proof blind cords, and bitter yuck/bitter apple repellent spray. But cat can and does leap several feet into the air to reach things she wants.

Do you have any experience cat-proofing pull-cords?

[ShenanAnna]

I have two such cords in my apartment, one pretty well behind a dresser, so that a finger can hook it from the top of the dresser but there is no attractive dangly thing. The other cord is in the bathroom, and I have it tied loosely to a towel rack with a horse-tying quick-release knot, with the attractive dangly end resting on top of the towel rack.

No cats here, but over-enthusiastic cleaning resulted in, not an alarm, but an agitated fire crew loudly banging on my door about eight hours later.

[Chall]

No, I don’t have experience with cats pulling alarm cords.

What I would try is creating a decoy cord with feather, catnip spray and springy cord that stretches and bounces back or one of those bent wire cat play toys on the decoy cord.
Make the alarm cord shorter than the decoy cord per poster suggestion above.

[4horses]

Can you hide the cord behind something? A poster? Something to make it less attractive but easy to access?