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A small critter of sorts climbed up a pole and had dinner on our fiber optic cable, probably a squirrel! :unsure: But it cost us four and a half days of shut down! 🤬 New cable up and Internet back! :thumbsup2:
 
Do ADHD Squirrels go "Look! A fiber optic cable!!"? :D
 
It’s not just fiber optic cable they like. They manage to chew our line every two or three years. At least it was only a few days!
 
I've told this story before but a years ago a friend's children's hamster died - they had the funeral in the backyard and he sent them in to watch a movie only to find he had cut the cable digging the grave. :ROFLMAO:
 
The squirrel did it because his friend the moose dared him to....

(Who remembers that reference...)
The only moose and squirrel I can think of is Bullwinkle and Rocky. Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader.
 
Yes indeed, those early 60s cartoons.

"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat..."
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a Squirrel out of my hat..."
 
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a cable out of my squirrel."
 
Our services are underground, so the tree rats have to find alternative mischief.

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