13 Amp Nut

[Adrian C]

within the pre-programmed firmware of Squirrels, there seems to be an instruction sequence that involves detaching round nut-like objects from branch like things like wires, before applying angle grinder mode or burying said item.

I've had several torpedo switches expertly removed and lost from lamp standards, and also chewed ring main cable (which I'm going to place in conduit when I get spare tuits), but recently he's targetting plug tops.

Is PVC plastic their version of crack? He seems a bit mad on it, and also has eaten a few CD cases and CDs I'd kept after importing contents to our squeezebox server.

Happily, I do belive we have now squirrel proofed the garage, so this should hopefully be the last of it.

[Andy Burns]

Just leaving all 13A plugs plugged-in ought to solve the problem soon enough.

[Davey]

I once knew an Alsatian who liked to chew power cords. For a while.

[Gib Bogle]

It's bizarre that rodents like to eat plastic. For sure it has no nutritional value, but the taste obviously appeals. In the case of rats and mice and cable insulation, a definite fire risk.

[NT]

Can we put those 2 pics on the wiki?

NT

[David WE Roberts]

Space in the market place for plastic rat poison granules? Won't leach out, not attractive to other animals, easy to handle etc.

[Gib Bogle]

[Davey]

Yes.

[dennis]

If they don't leach out how is the poison going to get into the rat?

I have seen poison in plastic bags so you can handle it and it will stay there in the wet until eaten.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

I think the idea of this is that the rat carries the entire sachet back to the nest; less risk to non-target species.

regards

[Davey]

If the rat can read the instructions! Our local rat-man carries his stuff in buckets, and each portion is in a plastic bag. He then skewers the bag, so letting the smell out, inside a feeding station. The entrances let in rats, mice, and anything else smaller that likes the smell of rat poison.

[Adrian C]

Sure :)

Also ye might like his last handy work on mains cable

[dennis]

[Gib Bogle]

I don't think rat poison should be placed where the rain can get to it, but in any case rain is one thing, a rat's stomach acid is something else. A valid point, though.

[Gib Bogle]

>>> Somewhere within the pre-programmed firmware of Squirrels, there seems

I wonder what the turds look like when they've been eating plastic.

[Davey]

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Maybe they are all neatly wrapped up ready for disposal? 'Auto-baggies'.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Wasn't that the origin of Bakelite?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Sadly not. :-)

was one of the things that you got out of coal tar - a base that preceded the petrochemicals industry.