When my GP sat for a long time once, there was a frog in the middle of the ATF lake. Po critter, I still have him. He is well-preserved lol. Animals see shiny stuff as water, thats why birds drop on cars. Then there was the dead bunny under the lawn mower been there since fall, shoulda stayed out of the shed while I had the mower out. Oh and the snake laying across the capacitors on my A/C unit. Still smell that one time to time. We had coons wrecking the garage for cat food once, I taped a Buck knife to a stick and skewered one, left the rest to tell the tale and never saw the lot of em again. FWIW Vaseline on the feeder stand legs gives the squirrels something to think about.