I've had very different constraints. We now have cats, and they've got a penchant for chewing through cables of any and all descriptions. This can get expensive with the wrong USB-C cables!

For what it's worth, out of desperation I ended up trying a vendor that I discovered via Google searching that explicitly stated it engineered its USB cables to deter cats. And so far they've worked! Go figure.

https://paracable.com/