Reply to post: Re: Don't forget the smaller cousins....

Dam it: Beaver ate our internet, says tiny Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge

John Sturdy

Re: Don't forget the smaller cousins....

I was told by a BT installer that part of the reason for using lead for the outer layer of the 2000-pair trunk cables was that it gradually poisoned the rats that gnawed it. Sounds a bit slow-acting to me, though.

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