What animal has done this?

[JohnBRG]

So - what has scratched a hole in my wheelie bin and also in the lead flashing on my shed roof? Rat?

[Rollin]

Yup

[Bill]

That's an impressive amount of damage!! Tree rat possibly?

[CMTMB]

Squirrels. I'm on my third bin this year because of the little sts.

[OIC]

Or a squirrel.

Which is a rat with a cute fluffy tail.

They don't call them vermin for nothing.

Tuffty is looking for food to, er, squirrel away for winter.

They can get quite feisty this time of year if they haven't put on enough fat over summer.

Love lead too.

[swanny71]

Squirrel?

Had very similar looking damage to our gas bottle change over valve a few years ago.

The little fker never came back after he chewed through the rubber gas line coming from the 47kg bottle! We’ve got braided hoses on there now.

[Mammasaid]

OIC said:

Or a squirrel.

Which is a rat with a cute fluffy tail.

They don't call them vermin for nothing.

Tuffty is looking for food to, er, squirrel away for winter.

They can get quite feisty this time of year if they haven't put on enough fat over summer.

Love lead too.

Oi, leave off Tufty, he wouldn't have done that as he's a Red.

It'll be a grey, aka tree rat.

[JohnBRG]

OK interesting. We have lots of squirrels....although this is a new development. Maybe they are hungrier than usual.....

[JohnBRG]

Thanks all

[OutInTheShed]

Possibly Homo Erectus subspecies "essex builder"?

[OIC]

Mammasaid said:

OIC said:

Or a squirrel.

Which is a rat with a cute fluffy tail.

They don't call them vermin for nothing.

Tuffty is looking for food to, er, squirrel away for winter.

They can get quite feisty this time of year if they haven't put on enough fat over summer.

Love lead too.

Oi, leave off Tufty, he wouldn't have done that as he's a Red.

It'll be a grey, aka tree rat.

Tufty is indeed a Red.

Tuffty, however, is his gray American cousin.

Introduced into the UK by some muppet in the 19th Century and now living on borrowed time due to their total yobbish behaviour.

Clever feckers though.

I may be old enough to have been a member of the Tufty Club.

I may still have the tie, badge and handkerchief somewhere.

Red squirrels are cool.

I may be a squirrel racist.

I blame Farage / Brexit.

Is that the cops at the door?

Am I Welshbeef?

Nurse

[jfdi]

Classic sign of a t-rex. Leave a goat chained to the bin for it.

[Radec]

[menousername]

Similar question - I had a mallet with a wooden handle and a separate black rubber head - you know - wedged on the handle as it tapers

Had it holding down some seat covers in the garden all summer.

Returned from a couple of days away recently and now all I have is a wooden handle .. no sign whatsoever of the head

What would have eaten that??

[sospan]

Hammerhead shark

[andy43]

It’ll be the animal on the left.

[LooneyTunes]

OIC said:

Or a squirrel.

Which is a rat with a cute fluffy tail.

They don't call them vermin for nothing.

Tuffty is looking for food to, er, squirrel away for winter.

They can get quite feisty this time of year if they haven't put on enough fat over summer.

Love lead too.

Less so if you feed it to them at high speed.

The amount of damage grey squirrels cause is astonishing.