If this is becoming a squirrel story .... I have one which even I have a hard time believing. We keep our birdseed in a big metal container in the garage, but also keep a small amount of birdseed in a large open pot which houses our hose. I cannot get the lid off the cookie can because it is beginning to rust and my other half has a hard time opening it. We got back from a 10 day trip to find the cookie can open and actually removed from the hose pot and laying on our patio - they must have carried it!, the seed had emptied into the hose pot and they had chewed through the hose to get to the seed in the bottom of the pot. It really is a never ending battle with those pesky creatures.