There was a rat in our garage four a couple of weeks. Today was the first time I personally saw it, but a bunch of other family members saw it prior.
I went to investigate why some of our Christmas lights were not turning on (I know kind of late) but that is when I noticed some movement in the garage. It was the rat. He chewed some of the wiring.
We were able to catch it, unfortunately there was no easy way to get him out of the house. We tried to spare it, but it is what it is.
Need to clean our garage now. But in of all of this action the network went down in the house. It was unrelated to the rat chewing, but in the end it was a switch that needed to be rebooted.