> Hmm, the company I worked for used to have a customer that was on the edge
> of a rural town, behind their premises was a hill covered in gorse. Often
> when one went to service the disk drive you also had to replace the
> connector panel, as the hole where it fitted was rather large, and became 
> an
> ideal entry point for small rodents to go from the cold outside to warm
> inside - causing the inevitable urination that such temperature changes
> bring about, all over the connector PCB.

Worst case mouse job I've had was a call to fix a stove for a friend (you 
know who you are :-) ).
.
Can't remember the electrical fault BUT a mouse (maybe small rat?) had tried 
to crawl through a hole in an internal  panel and had wedged tight and died 
and somewhat cooked.
Fresh enough that it fell in ultra smelly & messy pieces when attempt was 
made to pull it out. With me such events tend to evoke heaving stomachs and 
general desire to be sick. Most strange as I've dealt with much worse along 
the way and would probably wade though raw sewage if there was enough cause 
to do so with only a general sense of disquiet.

For quite some while we had a flat-rat [tm] under our back door mat. I cant 
recall how it got there (or if we knew) but it was flat as flat as flat and 
mummified to a pure leather consistency. You could hold it by the tail 
horizontally and it would stand straight out - strong and stiff. So we left 
it there, to show off to the occasional suitably stong stomached visitor. 
Over time it got rather the worse for wear and was sent on its way.

What happened to the [meece] co-tag ? :-).


           R




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