We pride ourselves on being a pet-friendly office, and we encourage employees to bring their pets to work. Dogs are not too much trouble, and nobody’s brought the cat in yet, but recently we have “acquired” a group of squirrels. They come daily, stick around while there’s some food left, then politely say goodby and take off. The problem is that they touch everything, and they’re particularly attracted to the cartridges for printers (probably because the packaging looks similar to the bags of nuts we have).
Initially we locked all office supplies in a closet, but one day the key mysteriously vanished (probably a squirrel commando in action), and we couldn’t print anything for a whole day. Now we have purchased some child-proof containers, and we keep the toners in there. The squirrels haven’t figured out how to open them (yet), and they’re too heavy to carry them off. Looking forward to finding out if this solution works on the long term.