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Is the mouse UL listed for use in a switch box.

I worked at a feed lot and had lots of problems with mice, rats and squirrels. We lost controls daily due to mice getting in the control panels. Old 480v stop starts and there would always be several dead mice besides the one that tripped the breaker or blew the fuse. Always smelled like burnt fur. Rod

worst one I ever had was a family of skunks in a po-co transformer.
The stink was undescribable.

Trumpy,
Though I did not get pics, I've had outages due to squirrels, birds, snakes, and all manner of vermin.

Fires caused by these are not uncommon, the worst was a raccoon that burned nearly an acre before I could get into replace the fuses.

Not unusual to see birds on separate insulators begin pecking at each other and end up crispy critters. After the 'coon the worst fire I've ever had to rebuild lines for was one where the birds started it, musta been at least 30 carcasses with that one.

Nothing will shift the stink of cat's P-one hundred-and-fifty-five, except burning the affected item, in my experience. Tom-P155 is the worst formula, they mark out territory with horizontal bursts. It ain't ammonia, it's some sort of hormone/pheremone mix.
I quite like tom-cats, and we used to get 'em spayed before they reached pubity to stop the squirting behavior. It stops them going off on two-year sex-jaunts too, then coming back half-dead and covered in battle scars, fleas and mange.

As to mouses, I was in the shop one day, being real quiet reading some stuff, and a mouse emerged right by me, between two oak boards. Aftewards, I measured the gap it came through. Just a tad under 3/8" (0.375"). How do they do it- dislocate their joints, or what?

Alan

They are just ghost mice, they can go thru walls and doors.

So, your attrition of my position is; it was all an apparition and a visitation of my imagination? But the condition of the fission in the partition, within the limits of precision of my vision, leads me with derision to determine that the vermin that came squirmin' past the burl in the purlin was not a creation of my imagination, but a small, flat, ( at a pinch, no thicker than 3/8 of an inch ) rat!.
Now, I can take with some vexation, the notion of all its limbs in dislocation, but the ghoulies too?- ( Blimey!- will only a Limey timely catch the slimy joke in that? ).
I come to the conclusion that here, there's some confusion, and a question of another dimension that begs a further mention!

Alan

I'm off down the bar!

ROFL!!!