If you recall back in March, I finished the overflow pipe and even 3D printed a plastic cover to keep the mosquitoes and snakes and other critters out.

Well, that didn’t work so well. Sometime in the past week or two, a rat chewed through my beautiful cover.

You can tell it was a rat or similar by the chewed up pieces of plastic and the rat poop it left inside:

Hmm. If the plastic wasn’t strong enough, I guess it is time to go for a steel mesh.