Just opened a drawer and found a dead rat

[Princecharlesfirstwife]

OMFG.
I have a photo but will save you the horror. I sent it to DH instead who has the good fortune to be away this weekend.

When our teens put the dead rat they found in our wheelie bin they left it eyes up!! That was a rather unnerving find 😉

Ugh. I thought a rat strolling outside my study doors in the garden this week was bad. Obviously I am now glad I don't have a drawer-rat!

Next doors chickens have a lot to answer for.

Think yourselves lucky you found it now. A day later and your nose would have been leading you. May I respectfully suggest:
www.rentokil. We used to live on a house backing onto the Thames and very close to a tube line. I can out rat most people. Cats and small dogs are your very best friends.

I found a dead rat on my indoors front doormat once. I put the kids in the car, put the doormat in a box whilst making involuntary squawks, drove straight to the tip and got rid of the whole thing.

It looks like it died recently, have you had a good look to see how it might have got in, are there any holes in the drawers. Have you got a pet that could have bought it in.

That is one very dead but very freshly dead looking rat!

Wheelie bin for sure.

I think it must have got in round the back and from the bottom IYSWIM. In my less traumatised moments I sort of feel sorry for the little b*er because it clearly went from drawer to drawer (it has left ‘evidence’) trying to find its way out.

It’s most definitely in the plastic green coffin otherwise known as the wheelie bin.

Not convinced its a rat- do you have a close up of the tail?

That's definitely a rat. Nice healthy specimen as well......if it wasn't dead I suppose.

Very freshly dead 😂

Who is the unfortunate person looking reproachfully at you from the drawer?

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

That's definitely a rat. Nice healthy specimen as well......if it wasn't dead I suppose.

That's not dead, he is just resting.

Especially for you My Secret History. Ratty tail and toes.

Burn the house down time. Where there's a rat there are more rats.

PMSL at giving it a bloody funeral.

When I moved in here, the plumber found one in the airing cupboard 😱

My cats have been known to bring live rats in. The last one was politely ushered out the front door (live, they don’t move,that fast) just as the next door neighbour was walking past. He’s been giving me funny looks ever since.

I found a dead one in the cupboard under the sink once. Was in the original Beast From The East. Pipes had frozen from sink, was trying to defrost them buy trickling wwarm water through but flooded the cupboard instead so was wiping the shelf. Picked Roland up think it was a brown microfiber cloth.

He must have eaten the mouse poison I left under the washing machine due to a past mouse problem. Then crawled in the cupboard and died. We think it came in because of the cold weather via a gap round the out pipes under the sink.

FFS OP tied plastic bag and straight into corporation bin. Not your green bin.

You are very brave OP - I would have hyperventilated then cried if I’d have found that

Jesus Christ

My heart rate has increased drastically since I opened this thread, I don't think I'll sleep tonight knowing I have to open drawers in the morning!

I was sitting out on the upstairs terrace the other night - we live in hotter climes - & noticed the idiot dog had dragged out a teddy from dd2's bedroom.

To save it being mauled, & CBAing to take it back to her bedroom, I carefully balanced it on a wall light (one of those terracotta sconce thingies).

Whereupon a fat rat jumped out & ran up my arm.

I screamed & yeeted it skyward.

Ratty then did about 6 panicked Wall of Death circuits round the terrace, squeaking furiously, with Idiot Dog in joyful yapping pursuit.

Eventually it managed to hurl itself over the balustrade & plunged 12' into the garden below.

I suspect both our evenings were quite ruined. Idiot Dog thought it was the most fabulous exciting thing ever, & still spends hopeful hours patiently gazing at the wall sconce in case it ever decides to fire out ratties for her amusement again.

Brown microfibre cloth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂