I had a battery sitting outside my door. The posts are chewed by a critter! Why on earth would an animal do that? It's not organic, lol. I wonder if there is something that attracts a squirrel or rat. We have lots of squirrels.

BTW, the first pic is the positive post and it is black, not lead looking. Anyone know the material? Second, negative, looks like lead or what is that?

There is plenty to eat around here, lol. Squirrels look healthy. My badass Burmese cat (Floyd RIP) killed 17 of them and then I quit counting.

Thank goodness this battery has the extra posts with the bolt/nut.

 

I used to shoot competition sporting clays, and squirrels were a bad problem.  They would eat the posts off all of the batteries for the machines.  It happened a ton.  No clue why.  I suspect you have a squirrel doing this!

Jeff

32 minutes ago, 00 mod said:

I used to shoot competition sporting clays, and squirrels were a bad problem.  They would eat the posts off all of the batteries for the machines.  It happened a ton.  No clue why.  I suspect you have a squirrel doing this!

Jeff

If that negative post is lead, I would think it would kill the animal, lead is toxic. But it might be an alloy with less lead than pure lead.

I just had $400 electrical work done on a car due to rodents chewing through wires....didn't notice damage to posts, however.