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Noises in kitchen, absolutely shitting myself

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Kidulthood2027 · 05/05/2024 21:54

First of all, I have a huge phobia of rats. To the point I can’t function if there is one nearby. I have fainted before when seeing one as a teenager.

anyway, partner is currently out with a mate and won’t be home for a few hours. I cooked my dinner and left his portion on the kitchen counter next to microwave for him to warm up when he gets in, as I’ll likely have gone to bed by then. Went back into living room and put TV on not thinking anything of it, door to kitchen slightly ajar. I can now hear rustling noises. Really weird, the dryer and washer aren’t on and I can’t think of anything else that would explain the noise. It’s really loud though, like something has taken food from the plate and is dragging it along the kitchen floor/kitchen counter, I’m genuinely terrified and physically can’t move from the sofa to go and look. The kitchen counters are raised a few inches from the floor so would be easy for rats to be under there. I’m really frightened so please talk to me until partner gets home as I genuinely am stuck to the sofa with fear.

OP posts:
pocketaces · 06/05/2024 00:00

Well, what was it?

AlmostAJillSandwich · 05/05/2024 23:58

The last 3 times i've heard random rustling in the past few months, it was snakes :P Granted i own them and they'd gotten out of a faulty tank, but its still quite a shock to look up and see a snake cruising toward you, or half sticking out from under the TV cabinet when they usually live upstairs.
dad almost brained my hamster a few nightas ago thinking she was a mouse/rat at 1am after she learned to open her cage door and scuttled in to his room. Until beginning of this year we had a bad mouse problem ongoing for a couple of years, turns out a floorboard had rotted near a air vent and there was a hole they were pushing the carpet up from. It was only when a big fuck off rat came in, and i came face to face with it a few feet away on the side table next to the sofa i was sitting on, we ripped up the carpet and found the hole. Patched it and nothing since, when previously i was hearing if not seeing mice every day.

ThisIsMyRubbishUsername · 05/05/2024 23:57

Sometimes noise can travel strangely. I’ve sometimes thought there’s something or someone In one of the rooms in the house then realised because the window is open, I'm actually hearing someone do something in their garden close by.

FantasticButtocks · 05/05/2024 23:56

A fox? 🦊

FanofLeaves · 05/05/2024 23:49

It’s probably fine. Are you really going to summon your boyfriend home from a night out to eat salmon and check for non existent rats? it doesn’t even sound like rats!

Take a deep breath, go and have a look. Nothing is going to be able to physically hurt you.

JennyfromtheBlok · 05/05/2024 23:45

@Emdubz70 That is bonkers 🤣🤣

ajax1985 · 05/05/2024 23:40

I've currently got a rat in my loft. Rentokil are trying to get it for me.

Emdubz70 · 05/05/2024 23:10

This reminds me of years ago when I was alone at night and heard weird rustling from behind an armchair. If kept on for about 15 minutes getting louder and louder. I was frozen still and my heart was racing.

It turned out to be a bag of Munch Bunch yoghurts that I hadn’t realised were there. They’d obviously fallen out of sight and in the warm weather were expanding and exploding. The relief when I finally plucked up the courage to investigate 😂

determinedtomakethiswork · 05/05/2024 23:10

Lock yourself into that room!

OutOfTheHouse · 05/05/2024 23:07

Almost certainly a cat.

DirtyCheeseBurger · 05/05/2024 23:06

Sounds very much like a cat. Don't worry OP.

nadine90 · 05/05/2024 23:05

papadontpreach2me · 05/05/2024 22:43

How did they get into your flat? Can rats climb?

Yep. It was a first floor flat in really bad condition. I think there was a hole in the wall behind the cupboard, around the pipe from the sink, as that’s where they seemed to hang out 🤢 There was a takeaway next door that dumped food out the back just below.

Fizzib · 05/05/2024 23:05

Yeah probably a cat.

I had a cat come in through my back garden and try to steal some fish I’d just finished grilling. I was letting it cool while cleaning the kitchen floor. I popped out the room for a minute and when I came back it was walking across my kitchen floor to the fish on the oven rack!

I got such a fright and screamed then ran. It must have ran as well though because when I came back in the fish was untouched and the cat was gone. So I guess I startled it.

Kidulthood2027 · 05/05/2024 23:04

3luckystars · 05/05/2024 22:57

Still think it’s a ghost.

Oh god don’t go there! I just watched The Nun 2 last night

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3luckystars · 05/05/2024 22:57

Still think it’s a ghost.

NoCloudsAllowed · 05/05/2024 22:56

Doesn't sound like a rat to me. I think they're quite wary of new things, move into a house slowly and stay out of sight until they're sure of the their surroundings.

They basically want to come in and colonise, there's kind of a leader rat that checks it out first before bringing others in and breeding.

Coming in and immediately finding a way onto your work surface, I doubt.

We've had a cat in our attic room from a window before, three storeys up.

UneTasse · 05/05/2024 22:54

Fingers crossed for a cat!

Crystallizedring · 05/05/2024 22:53

It sounds more like a cat. Next doors cat used to sneak in and steal food.
We had bloody rats in the loft a few weeks ago and I didn't sleep until they were gone. I'm totally petrified of them and it doesn't help when people say they're more scared of you ( I doubt it).
Anyway hopefully your partner will be home and will find it's just a cat.

BlessedBeTheFruitCake · 05/05/2024 22:52

Psss psss near the door and see if a cat comes running. They would defo be attracted by the salmon you’ve left out for them dp.

Quacking4it · 05/05/2024 22:51

A bat? Cockroach?.? A mole!

Oneearringlost · 05/05/2024 22:50

A hedgehog?

3luckystars · 05/05/2024 22:48

Do you know what it is? A ghost.

A rat ghost.

JosiePosey · 05/05/2024 22:45

Kidulthood2027 · 05/05/2024 22:27

Thankfully there is a door between our living room and small hallway!

Can't rats get under doors, or is that just mice?

I've got a bit of a rodent phobia and I never leave uncovered food or crumbs out for the precise reason that it attracts creatures...

hollyivy123 · 05/05/2024 22:44

well I think you should look. It might not be as bad as you think and then you'll kick yourself for so long freaking out about it. A rat or mouse, or a cat won't kill you anyway. Just take a deep breath and go for it. Besides, we all want to know what it is. Perhaps we could all do a collective countdown for you to psych you up...

NotTerfNorCis · 05/05/2024 22:44

I've had rats several times in my house and they never once came into the house itself. They were in the loft, in the walls and under the floor.

I rigged up a Blink camera in the loft and got footage of a rat scampering about, rearing, and washing its nose. On camera it was cute.

Hope to have solved the problem with a 'rat gate' on the sewer pipe now.

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