There was a dead squirrel in my toilet this morning.

[zelda25]

Did you have a window open anywhere? I woke up one morning and found a squirrel sitting on my kitchen table--little fucker had chewed through the window screen and made himself at home.

If not a window, I'd assume it came in through an attic vent or some other part of the building's ventilation system. Doubt it came through the toilet, though--rats might hang out in sewers, but not squirrels.

[kcandbrae]

i woke up to a frog in my toilet one morning.

i think a dead squirrel is worse.

[mrlittlejeans]

No No NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[fluffaluff]

My guess is that it was in your wall or attic and came through somewhere then happened into the toilet. My friend had 2 raccoons get in her apartment from in the wall and had to call animal control to come trap them. 

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Apr 4, 2013 10:37:50 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

I saw a thing on the discovery channel or something similar once about urban legends and if they were real. There was legit a story about a guy in a city who found a rat (alive) in his toilet. They proved that it is totally possible. Apparently there is a lot of air and not much water in your pipes so basically they only have to swim a little bit to get up in your toilet if they climb in from the sewer. I am still traumatized by this program and now always turn the light on when I pee at night.

When we taught in China, there was a teacher in our group who had rats crawling out of her toilet on the regular.  Their solution was to put a cinder block on top of the lid, so they couldn't pop out.  She eventually got a new apartment, but I would have burned the place down!

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Apr 4, 2013 11:18:42 GMT -5 @tifvolley said:

Apr 4, 2013 10:37:50 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

I saw a thing on the discovery channel or something similar once about urban legends and if they were real. There was legit a story about a guy in a city who found a rat (alive) in his toilet. They proved that it is totally possible. Apparently there is a lot of air and not much water in your pipes so basically they only have to swim a little bit to get up in your toilet if they climb in from the sewer. I am still traumatized by this program and now always turn the light on when I pee at night.

When we taught in China, there was a teacher in our group who had rats crawling out of her toilet on the regular.  Their solution was to put a cinder block on top of the lid, so they couldn't pop out.  She eventually got a new apartment, but I would have burned the place down!

That's fucking horrifying! If that ever happens to me, I'm leaving. 

[demelza]

Happened to me last summer!! I go into the bathroom and see something out of the corner of my eye and scream bloody murder. My husband thought I saw a spider! I'm like there is a dead squirrel in the toilet.... it sounded crazy telling him. We have a dog so at first we suspected her but their was no sign of struggle and we ruled that out and now believe it was the bathroom roof vent. Stupid firkin squirrels. It was awful! I have gotten over my fear and pray it never happens again.

[KaraOrNot]

Apr 4, 2013 8:41:58 GMT -5 softspot said:

Oh man. Can you imagine sitting down half asleep in the middle of the night & getting your labes bitten by a squirrel?

Apr 4, 2013 11:01:39 GMT -5 kcandbrae said:

i woke up to a frog in my toilet one morning.

i think a dead squirrel is worse.

And I will never go to the bathroom w/o looking in the toilet. WTF.

[RoxMonster]

Apr 4, 2013 11:18:42 GMT -5 @tifvolley said:

Apr 4, 2013 10:37:50 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

I saw a thing on the discovery channel or something similar once about urban legends and if they were real. There was legit a story about a guy in a city who found a rat (alive) in his toilet. They proved that it is totally possible. Apparently there is a lot of air and not much water in your pipes so basically they only have to swim a little bit to get up in your toilet if they climb in from the sewer. I am still traumatized by this program and now always turn the light on when I pee at night.

When we taught in China, there was a teacher in our group who had rats crawling out of her toilet on the regular.  Their solution was to put a cinder block on top of the lid, so they couldn't pop out.  She eventually got a new apartment, but I would have burned the place down!

So when she eventually had to use the toilet, did a bunch climb out at once?

This is all horrifying to me. I am scared of using my toilet now.

[TrickyBob]

And here the only thing I was scared of was my toilet blowing up (if you don't have an s curve in your toilet, your toilet can blow up. We have one, but I still kind of run away after I flush), now I have to worry about bushy tails and rats.

[azurely]

Omg this is crazy! I have always had a semi irrational fear of something crawling up out of the sewer into the toilet. Perhaps it isn't so irrational.

I will never pee again without checking the toilet.

[lightyears]

Omg. This totally blows my dead mouse in the pot story out of the water. (No pun intended).




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I've been sitting on my hands all day not commenting on this. Lets just say working for a homebuilder we see all kinds of vermin getting into houses. They chew thru vents, crawl up pipes and have ruined some new homes. Just imagine a "protected" animal getting into your home and not being able to remove it until I decides to leave. It's nature peeps, this shit is real.

[Deleted]

My sisters friend had a dead rat in the toilet. It can happen.

[LeggsBenedict]

I think I ate your chocolate squirrel.

[lilibet]

Apr 4, 2013 18:14:10 GMT -5 tarzanswife said:

I've been sitting on my hands all day not commenting on this. Lets just say working for a homebuilder we see all kinds of vermin getting into houses. They chew thru vents, crawl up pipes and have ruined some new homes. Just imagine a "protected" animal getting into your home and not being able to remove it until I decides to leave. It's nature peeps, this shit is real.

Like on Family Guy when Peter had the birds in his beard and couldn't force them out!

I'm never going to the bathroom again. Squirrels, rats, frogs, and exploding toilets?! omg

[glassofsyrah]

My squirrel story of the week - Yesterday a branch broke and a squirrel landed on my boss' head as he was walking his dog. Hilarious.

[daisyheadmaizie]

Holy hell. Squirrels freak me the fuck out. This is like my worst nightmare, actually add in a freaky ass clown and you are there.

[thatgirl2478]

Ok - so after a little googling I found out that the squirrel PROBABLY went down your vent stack on the roof and then tried to get out, but got confused & came up your toilet. Honestly, this makes me want to buy baby locks for all the toilet lids in our house!

[annyong]

What the what! That is crazy!