What a great story. It’s open season on grey squirrels where I live in the sticks. The little bastages ate the wiring off my car’s transmission in the driveway. $400 and a trip through the junk yard on a miserably hot day. There is a groundhog too that thinks he is a cat, scratching on the patio sliding door. He could have been the culprit.
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I only shoot the big fat ones that get up in my engine block.
(that’s a lie; if you get on my lawn i go Eastwood.)
~W
If your car was made in the age of ‘soy in everything’, your cars wiring is insulated with soy wiring, making it bait for critters. I have a big problem with mice in the wiring of the plow truck for that reason.