About 20 years ago, I was renovating an old cottage that had been infested with mice and squirrels. I gutted the entire place down to the studs and rebuilt everything. While I was at it, I removed all the wiring to the build and redid it all too. As I worked around the main electrical panel, the panel was separated in two partitions. The first partition was where all the house wiring went to … the other side was for servicing by the electrical company to install or reinstall or service the panel … I never needed to go in there. So I worked on the place for about a month until I had to get behind the panel to remove a few screws. and adjust a few things.

I opened the never opened panel … I couldn’t see any wires … the whole section of that panel was completely blocked by a recently deceased squirrel that was completely spread out, all limbs stretching as far as they could go in four directions and its tail completely ballooned up with fur. I took the out the squirrel as one solid stiff piece. It had entered in through a punch out that shouldn’t have been removed and crawled in and touched things it shouldn’t have touched.

I just didn’t expect to find that when I went to open the metal box panel.

I wish I had taken a picture but it was just before the period when people started to get camera phones to take pictures of everything.