To ask whether you should flush...

@malpa 😂

@BingandFlop2019 I have a fear of snakes appearing in my toilet. I watched something when I was in primary school about a kid finding a snake and his parents didn’t believe him for ages as he kept coming and going. Put me right off them, especially public toilets

This reminds me - my MIL has been scared of frogs since one jumped up from the loo (outside toilet) when she was small and terrified her when she felt it touch her bum!

Poor fwoggie! Hope it's safe back outside now.

It's probably hopping round your bathroom now somewhere out of sight. Have you got a cage on the top of your soil pipe? A bird could have picked it up & dropped it down the pipe.

No don't flush the poor critter you may end up drowning it or injuring it. Pull your big girl pants up and be brave it won't hurt you, have you got a Tupperware box or an empty shoe box? Put some rubber gloves in if your frightened of germs and gently scoop it in the box and release it somewhere quiet

Poor Prince Froggiam...

Awwww - it's sweet. I hope it's all right.

imagine if you had gone for a wee in the dark and he had jumped up at you as you sat down

Bittern I liked the idea of you going out with a bucket during your mating season
then I reread and realised I need to go to sleep now

Yes he'll be in the gap between the seat and the toilet edge

Many years ago I lived in a shared house , one of the tenants (unknown to the landlord) kept a snake that managed to get next door .
NDN got the shock of her life to lift her toilet seat and find it

Picture the LL face when he got the phonecall "Snake? From my house? Eh?"

Not to slam you, but is he small enough to be hiding under the rim? Frog up Foof risk may still be high

Is the the follow-up to Snakes On A Plane?

Can you imagine if you'd been sitting on the seat just casually minding your own business.

Oh, the poor little frog. I can assure you it's far more terrrified of you than you are of it!

I'm part of a toad patrol who go out every night during mating season and carry frogs, toads and newts across the road to the pond they were born in. We put then in a bucket, take them across, put them in the pond and leave them to it. A couple of weeks later, we take them back...

Each year, we save hundreds. Many would be run down and squashed if we weren't there.

Please, be kind to animals. Even in your loo. I assure you, they don't want to be there.

It's only a little baby frog! It's cute!

I can't see how a frog would have got in there though. Can only presume like a PP said that it's something that shouldn't be happening with your pipework. Frogs can't really climb up u-bends that have come from a soil stack and flush to beneath the ground

Thanks @Inspector will do!

@Bing the lid will be staying down for the rest of the night and I'll find another loo if I need a wee at 3am - the idea of a frog hopping up my fouf is just too traumatic to risk!

Omg this has scarred me for life..... Forevermore I am going to be checking the loo for Frogs and terrified of one leaping up onto my bits whenever I'm sat down!

😂 Sorted it for you I see😂
Still, chevk your waste pipes tomorrow to check for cracks. Not sure how else he/she could get in. Sewage system isn't frog friendly. Maybe a stink pipe...

Ps @user thanks - part of my secondary panic was what Mumsnetters would say about my loo! I immediately regretted the photo haha!

I braved it and opened the lid to move him and he's gone! Presumably out the same way he came in 🙈

Sorry for that total non-event but DH was going to flush him and I wanted some Mumsnet wisdom before I let him anywhere near!

A frog in a bog! . You don't see that every day.

Dustpan is your friend here I think. I do have a cat and have removed a few amphibians this way. (Although never from the loo)

This would totally freak me out but no way would I consider flushing. I would put something over it to catch it in like a jar or something.

Pan, slam a lid on! Please don’t flush him. Also I would like to compliment you on your sparklingly clean loo.

Btw there is no water in wastepipe. It's only in the actual toilet bit so he/she walked up to it and then took a little dive. Poor thing islucky there was no bleach or smth.
Get a plaxtic box with cover. It's easier to catch them like this if they are really jumpy.