Whats chewing up my trail cameras

[yomomma]

So I put a few game cams up at the property. I used the aux power jack and a gel cell battery. Some little critter has come up and chewed through all the cables. not only that but the darn thing attacked from the back side of the camera. All i have of evidence is the teeth marks in the container that was holding the battery.

Can anyone identify them? Assuming its a martin or the like. Assuming it was the sausage grease left on our fingers from lunch that might have attracted it.

 

[LE303]

put up another camera pointing at the ones that are getting chewed ????

 

[trebor2880]

Not being an orthodontal forensitic, I can only guess a squirrel or chipmunk.

 

[TrevorJ]

If it was only the power cords, I'd say bunnies. They seem to like the thrill of chewing on electrical wiring.
Seeing how it's also on the battery box, and camera, not sure. Ermine? I don't think it would be squirrels. Looks too big to be mice or rats. Hrm... Maybe you need to setup a camera, to watch your camera?

 

[savage 110L]

I ran a telemetry project for tracking white sturgeon in 2007. Porcupines would eat 50m of cable every goddam night at one of my sites. Zero data collected.

Set snares to fix your problem. If it’s pine marten you’ll catch them.

 

[M&P 40]

Chupacabra

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I ran a telemetry project for tracking white sturgeon in 2007. Porcupines would eat 50m of cable every goddam night at one of my sites. Zero data collected.

Set snares to fix your problem. If it’s pine marten you’ll catch them.

Pine marten are fur bearers You no catch without a trappers license. Probably squirrels, one alone did a real number on my tent.

Grizz

 

[yomomma]

Pine marten are fur bearers You no catch without a trappers license. Probably squirrels, one alone did a real number on my tent.

Grizz

Have dealt with lots of squirrel damage, this ain't it. Teeth marks all seem to be pointy.

Hoping to get my trapping license, just need to see if anyone has a trap line in my area.

 

[New Camper]

Unless this is happening several hours north of Hamilton area, it's not going to be a martin... looks smaller than that anyway, so definitely not a fisher. Red squirrel would be my first guess, but sausage grease (and the obvious canine tooth impressions rule out rodents buck teeth) I'd be suspecting weasel or mink. They are not random destroyers of equipment though, so I doubt they stripped the wires... that is the malicious work of rodents from mice up to porcupine.

 

[yomomma]

Unless this is happening several hours north of Hamilton area, it's not going to be a martin... looks smaller than that anyway, so definitely not a fisher. Red squirrel would be my first guess, but sausage grease (and the obvious canine tooth impressions rule out rodents buck teeth) I'd be suspecting weasel or mink. They are not random destroyers of equipment though, so I doubt they stripped the wires... that is the malicious work of rodents from mice up to porcupine.

My property up in Bracebridge

 

[Can-down]

Can you Armour the wire with some conduit and protect the back of the camera?

try a bike mirror type setup and see if you can get some pictures....

 

[45CAT]

Coon

 

[kamlooky]

Sausage grease...…………….whut ahh sawsage………………………..

 

[stsfld66]

Man, I thought somebody shot my camera but it was a Woodpecker ! They can do some damage as well.

 

[yomomma]

Sausage grease...…………….whut ahh sawsage………………………..

What bambi is made out of(or into)

 

['Boo]

Bushy-Tailed Woodrat aka Packrat. Those little bastards love the taste of plastic.

 

[hoytcanon]

Porcupine

 

[evansd]

Squirrels are famous for chewing Bell Canada cable and fiber optic cable. we several outages a year because of the damage the do good chance that is it

 

[Superbrad]

My money is on squirrels.... They chewed the chute out of my Moultrie feeder in similar fashion....

 

[yomomma]

As an electrician I have seen my share of wires chewed up by squirrels...