@beautifulbobby193 – Two points. A well-maintained litterbox doesn’t stink up the house. We have two in ours and you’d smell dog before you knew we have cats.
Two, please do not rub your animals’ faces in feces. That is a really uninformed, unnecessary, and cruel thing to do. For one, what does feces even have to do with chewing cords? Even a human would have to make a huge leap in logic to connect the two. Secondly, dogs and cats have rather short short-term memories (average is 5 minutes for dogs, 15 minutes for cats), so rubbing their face in poop will seem really random and cruel to them. Having lived with and trained several animals, I can testify that showing a chewed object and punishing does not work. The animal may show “guilt” when they’re shown the trash all over the floor, but the action is done and I honestly don’t think they get the concept of being punished for something done in the past.
The most effective way to train an animal is by positively reinforcing good behavior. The way to extinguish a behavior is to associate the action with something unpleasant (a squirt of water, a loud bang, etc.).