On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 1:27:57 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Squirrels or some other chewy thing ate one of the cables on my boat.
I fixed it but I am still not happy about it. (Tilt down was broke)
I wrapped the cable in expanded metal and rubber tape where it is
exposed. Let's see those little buggers chew through that ;-)
I am still not sure why they decided that was a good thing to eat. It
wasn't even easy for them to get to.

This may seem an oddity, but here at Richland County's Eastfork lake there were several boats sunk back in 'the day' because the muskrats loved to chew on those big rubber gaskets on the OMC Stringer outdrives. I guess they liked to gnaw at them to keep their little teefers sharpened...