Nightmares do come true.

[weelass24]

Last winter we had one in the attic and it was working its way into the kitchen, through the walls and into the vent fan above the stove. We set traps and caught it. The fucker was huge. DH chucked it into the cow field and I was smug. Later that evening, we heard another bastard running around above us.

We called the rat people in after that.

[lookingup]

Sept 17, 2015 16:04:07 GMT -5 gummybear said:

This is what I saw on FB
It's real! IT'S NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, like the Bible of legit nature things.
This also needs a warning. Don't watch if you are squeamish
video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/150811-rats-toilet-swimming-vin

Yup, this is the video I watched. Damn it, NatGeo!

[Serenity9]

[flex]

I'd be permanently constipated IN.MY.OWN.HOME!

I'd have to hold it until I got to work or use the...dunn dunn dunn...gas station.

[waffletime]

Sept 17, 2015 16:07:53 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

If a rat can climb up from the sewer, I'm sure it can climb through pipes to the third or fourth floor. Right?

LET ME BELIEVE.

[lookingup]

I actually got a photo of the rat in the toilet because my Facebook friends demanded it. It took about 10 minutes because every time I lifted the lid it would squeak at me, and I was really afraid it would try to jump out of the toilet.

I'll keep it to myself though.

[kellykapowski]

Sept 17, 2015 15:53:51 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

No. No way.

So now I have to worry about murderers behind the shower curtain, spiders hiding in the toilet paper roll, AND rats swimming up my toilet?? No.

WHUT?

[elleblue]

Sept 17, 2015 16:08:49 GMT -5 lookingup said:

I actually got a photo of the rat in the toilet because my Facebook friends demanded it. It took about 10 minutes because every time I lifted the lid it would squeak at me, and I was really afraid it would try to jump out of the toilet.

I'll keep it to myself though.

Sounds like your toilet lid is going to need a latch. 





Sorry. 

[gummybear]

Sept 17, 2015 16:08:49 GMT -5 lookingup said:

I actually got a photo of the rat in the toilet because my Facebook friends demanded it. It took about 10 minutes because every time I lifted the lid it would squeak at me, and I was really afraid it would try to jump out of the toilet.

I'll keep it to myself though.

PIP! PIP! PIP!

[cashews]

I immediately regret watching that Nat Geo video.

Ignorance really is bliss.

[sterl724]

Fuck that.

I would have done the same thing. Dear god.

[Elsa]

I hate this whole fucking thread

[miso]

Ok.

So.

What now?

[dottyblue]

I have never been so thankful that I have a septic and am not connected to a public sewer.  AUGH!

[panbitch]

*rocks in fetal position*

[seriously]

You win! I thought I had good/traumatic animals in the toilet story, but you win.
As a child on rare occasions a squirrel would get in our house. Happened 2 or 3 times that I recall. Once when I was about 5 I went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet and for some reason jumped right back up. A squirrel had drowned in our toilet! I can still picture him face down in the bowl! Nightmares for weeks!

[rosiebear]

Sept 17, 2015 16:08:49 GMT -5 lookingup said:

I actually got a photo of the rat in the toilet because my Facebook friends demanded it. It took about 10 minutes because every time I lifted the lid it would squeak at me, and I was really afraid it would try to jump out of the toilet.

I'll keep it to myself though.

YOU LIFTED THE LID?!?!

[eddy]

I am glad i read this before the pip.

I mean I am not glad I read this at all. But thank goood I didn't have to see the PIP.

[lookingup]

Sept 17, 2015 16:19:41 GMT -5 seriously said:

You win! I thought I had good/traumatic animals in the toilet story, but you win.
As a child on rare occasions a squirrel would get in our house. Happened 2 or 3 times that I recall. Once when I was about 5 I went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet and for some reason jumped right back up. A squirrel had drowned in our toilet! I can still picture home face down in the bowl! Nightmares for weeks!

Nooooooo! This happened to a friend of mine too. Fucking rodents in toilets!

[lookingup]

Sept 17, 2015 16:21:03 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

Sept 17, 2015 16:08:49 GMT -5 lookingup said:

I actually got a photo of the rat in the toilet because my Facebook friends demanded it. It took about 10 minutes because every time I lifted the lid it would squeak at me, and I was really afraid it would try to jump out of the toilet.

I'll keep it to myself though.

YOU LIFTED THE LID?!?!

I mean, a couple of times I did it to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating or to make sure it was still in there and hadn't escaped.

[Deleted]

This would scar me. For life.

[lookingup]

I can't figure out how to PIP from my phone (or I'm too lazy), so it's safe for now.

[anlo]

Sept 17, 2015 16:29:28 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

I want to see! Pip!

I also had a pet rat though

NOOOOOO!!!!!

[BaliHai]

Why am I in this thread? There aren't enough fucking nopes in the world for this shit.

[lookingup]

Sept 17, 2015 16:31:44 GMT -5 @mama2b said:

Years ago my Mom, Uncle, and I were in mygrandparent's horse barn. My Uncle opened up a bin and a huge rat jumped out at us. It was the size of cat and was hissing. I remember one minute I was in the barn and the next I was standing in the bed of our truck. I'm not even sure how I got in the truck, but think my Mom grabbed me and carried me.

You don't remember because you blacked out from terror.

[sweetnsour]

This is horrifying!!! I did not need to know it was possible. lol

[sangria]

I QUIT LIFE

[mrsukyankee]

[chickadee77]

Ugh. We had a snake swim up into one of our toilets once.

Now I always check.

I reacted much the same as you did.

::shudder::

[textbookcase]

Jesus christ. No!

I have a total fear of a cockroach coming up the toilet while I'm on it. It has never happened, but I am always a little bit scared that it will.