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[martin_h]

It's taken me 3 days but I've finally sorted out why I lost networking to the obs. - the local wild life has eaten the cable!!!

[Gina]

I've had that with virtually all cables that go outside except armoured ones or ones in substantial pipes underground.

[Ben the Ignorant]

Why do they bite cables? Is rubber food to them?

[Paz]

Maybe eating cables adds a bit of excitement and variety to their day?

[xtreemchaos]

Mmmm cables ?..

[Beulah]

It's the ease of access to the wires and the fact they 'stay put' whilst the rodents do their business of chewing to keep their teeth from growing out of their head!

[martin_h]

I might run a spare 240V line down there .....chew on that!

[upahill]

Its how rodents get online, they refuse to pay for their own connections.

Or they use it for bedding, I don't know - but its one of those two things im sure. How was the cable run, loose or in a pipe?

[RayD]

Wowzer they've had a proper go at that!!

[Hallingskies]

Mice strip cables for nest making. It was not uncommon to find nests made out of shredded Cat5 in outdoor enclosures when I worked at power stations.  They would chew through the cable seals to get in and cause all sorts of problems.  

[johninderby]

 

[kev]

Have none of you guys got a rabbit as a pet?   Rule one.  Protect all cables.  Rule 2.  That wasnt good enough.    Lol

 

[Macavity]

Well, if you're gonna go... go BIG? 66kV! ?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/29/large-hadron-collider-fouine-chews-through-transformer-wiring

And again... (Immortalised via taxidermy) ?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/27/cerns-electrocuted-weasel-display-rotterdam-natural-history-museum

At least it's not as bad as "road-kill guy"? ?

[Les Ewan]

A couple of years ago I drove off in my van one  morning to go to work and after about 50 metres the engine conked out,when I got out to investigate diesel was running from the bottom of the engine. A mouse had chewed through the rubber fuel line.I soon fixed it, however the same thing happened about a week later so getting a mouthful of diesel didn't deter it any.

[martin_h]

Well there is one less in the garden now, the trap works a treat! Just wondering how many there are?

[LukeSkywatcher]

I had a rat in the attic a couple of yrs ago. It chewed through all the cables for the lights in the house. I heard it jumping around a couple of times. It sounded like a 20 stone Rothweiler up there.

[Ben the Ignorant]

You may be surprised there's a YouTube channel dedicated to mousetraps, and it's worth checking, some designs are centuries or millenia old. The inventivity that went into catching rodents over eons is staggering.

https://www.youtube.com/user/historichunter

[martin_h]

2 down!

[JamesF]

2 hours ago, kev said:

Have none of you guys got a rabbit as a pet?   Rule one.  Protect all cables.  Rule 2.  That wasnt good enough.    Lol

I have some friends who had a house rabbit, many years ago.  One day it ate all the buttons off  the television remote control

James

[Ricochet]

1 hour ago, martin_h said:

Well there is one less in the garden now, the trap works a treat! Just wondering how many there are?

If you've seen one, you have many. 

[Ben the Ignorant]

A several centuries old trap:

 

A several millenia old system:

 

[johninderby]

Not sure about this one. Claims to keep the trapped mice comfortable and happy. ?

http://www.bestmousetrapever.com/what-makes-our-mouse-trap-different.cfm

[JamesF]

7 minutes ago, johninderby said:

Not sure about this one. Claims to keep the trapped mice comfortable and happy. ?

http://www.bestmousetrapever.com/what-makes-our-mouse-trap-different.cfm

That'll be so you can curry them later.

James

[johninderby]

Wonder if the local curry house uses those traps. Hmmmmmmm.....?

[JamesF]

Dormouse jalfrezi, anyone?

James