What made you split the poplar in the first place, bad nail placement or knots?

Sounds like the crash was just the cable box or whatever tipping over, not a real problem. Cats knock stuff down all the time, it's what they do. Five days on an $18 wrap seems fine to me, not sure why you'd jump to conduit for one bad night. Maybe just unplug the loose stuff before bed or move the stand so she can't get back there. Unless she's actually biting through live wires and getting hurt, this feels more annoying than serious.

Ha, my buddy hit 500 calls at his shop and still calls me for advice on weird furnace codes, so volume ain't the whole story. He finally figured out his real milestone was going 6 months with zero callbacks, not any number on an app. Yours might just be a streak now, but streaks turn into skill if you're actually learning from the repeats lol.