I am late to this but my sister had the same thing happen when she went to use the bathroom at our house growing up. My dad, the ever practical, flushed it back down the toilet. (we had a septic tank). I don't think my mother knew about it to the day she died. (she would have set all things on fire).
I refuse to believe this can happen with a septic tank.
I am late to this but my sister had the same thing happen when she went to use the bathroom at our house growing up. My dad, the ever practical, flushed it back down the toilet. (we had a septic tank). I don't think my mother knew about it to the day she died. (she would have set all things on fire).
I refuse to believe this can happen with a septic tank.
It can if the septic tank is old and the "cover" is just a piece of sheet metal, instead of a proper cover. My house growing up was a bit dilapidated
OMG. My sympathies. This happened to me too. We also keep the lids down because of our cats. I lifted the lid to sit down and saw it out of the corner of my eye. A huge rat. I slammed the lid down and ran around the apartment screaming. My husband used a tennis racquet to keep the rat in the bowl and a butcher knife to drown it. ::shudders::
Is there no way to guarantee that it will not crawl back?
I don't feel that I got a full explanation of the circumstances.
When it happened at my H's apt, the super said that some flap that's supposed to open and then close off after every flush wasn't closing off, allowing the rat to swim in (shudder). A new flap was installed and no more Ben in the Bog.
my H is a plumber, I just asked him about this because I want it in my house. He says ahhhh.... I have never heard of that? I am pretty sure that guy was just lying to make them feel better
lolll (he did add in the caveat that maybe it's a think in more urban areas but sewer rats are pretty uncommon in our area- I will just hold onto that last part for dear life ok)
Last night before I went to bed I flushed the toilet just in case. And this morning I lifted the lid and startled myself for no reason. I don't know if I will be normal again after this.
Last night before I went to bed I flushed the toilet just in case. And this morning I lifted the lid and startled myself for no reason. I don't know if I will be normal again after this.
Omg this is exactly what I would do too lol. I am so sorry.
Last night before I went to bed I flushed the toilet just in case. And this morning I lifted the lid and startled myself for no reason. I don't know if I will be normal again after this.
I'm at risk of doing that when I get home just having read your story.
Omg thanks to this thread I had a terrifying bathroom visit at 3am. I was CERTAIN a rat was going to come crawling out of the toilet at any moment.
Ha! I know, I've been carefully checking my toilet before sitting down since yesterday.
We are moving within a few weeks to a house that has a septic tank so I'm now looking forward to that. Except for the PP that said it happened to them with a septic tank, which I am trying to ignore.
OMG and I thought that my finding a spider in the layers of toilet paper AFTER I wiped was bad! (before anyone assumes I mess around with dirty tp, when I stood up I looked back for whatever reason and saw the dark many legged shadow between two layers of tp).