rodents getting into speakers via speaker ports

I traded a receiver for a friend's incomplete project: two vertical turntables to make 1 good one. Luckily it worked, I have it in my office.

One of the units, many small wires, mice had gotten so hungry they had eaten the insulation off the wires.

My son had a rabbit in his room in a college frat house. The rabbit must not have liked his choice of music, he chewed thru the speaker wires.

Not entirely unsurprising, more than a few critters follow the “mi casa, su casa” idiom, if you let them. Acoustic suspension speakers are helpful, as is owning Siberian huskies, who are natural born killers.

Yeah we had a mice infestation in out basement about two years ago. Major project to eradicate them. I found various things they left me for a present. 🙄

But no major damage and certainly nothing like a deadly snake!!!  

My first DIY speakers were large transmission lines, and at some point I partially disassembled them to adjust the stuffing in the lines.  One of them had a couple of handfuls of dried corn inside, evidently some mouse's stash.  The barn where we kept the dried corn was about 200 yards away, so I had to admire the little guy's work ethic...

But not enough to prevent me from stapling mosquito netting over the ports to keep it from happening again.

I don't have mice in my man cave but it only takes 1 mouse to create a lot of havoc.  So I think I'll strap a piece of plywood or acrylic to the front of my LaScalas when not in use just in case.