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.

Picked Roland up think it was a brown microfiber cloth.

At what point did you realise?

Also want to know who is the in the drawer with rat, from the expression it looks like he knows there is a rat there.

You seem very calm about the presence of DR (dear Ratty) are you not curious about where his family is residing?

It looks very well fed, op. Have you checked your pantry?

It's a very plump rat, must have had a good food source. I would call in properly licensed pest controllers and ask them to check your home for possible access points, then it's their job to dispose of the bodies. I can't believe that some posters feel sorry for the disease ridden creatures. They contaminate anything they touch , cause horrendous damage and scare the bejasus out of me

@Newfluff

Picked Roland up think it was a brown microfiber cloth.

At what point did you realise?

Also want to know who is the in the drawer with rat, from the expression it looks like he knows there is a rat there.

When it was stiff and cold. First thought was sink had leaked and cloth get wet and then froze (old 1900s terrace, cold in normal winters but that winter everything kept freezing). Had got arm in cupboard, face concentrating on trickling warmwatwr through sink to the point it was hopefully melting frozen pipes without flooding the cupboard again.

I was mortified. Had rentokil out and everything.

My mum opened the airing cupboard one morning and found a live rat sitting looking at her. She knocked it into the laundry basket, popped the lid on, then brought it downstairs and killed it with a hammer. Tough lady my mum.

That’s a very healthy (other than the deadness) looking rat. I wonder where his friends are.

@CorvusPurpureus brilliant story, well told.

The wall has clearly been granted 'magic' status. Once a dog decides something is magic, it never gives up hope. In our house we have magic sandwich bag (DS never finishes his packed lunch), magic treat pocket, and magic fisherman (poor man gave her a bit of sausage roll ONCE).

@Deadringer

That's not dead, he is just resting.

I was going to do a Fawlty Towers ‘filigree Siberian hamster’ joke but Python is better!

Bloody hell. I feel sick.

Last winter, we had a limping and clearly very ill rat staring at us through the garden door in the kitchen. Those red eyes .... [shudder].

I think next door's cat got it in the end. (Beautiful and very ladylike with distinct killer tendencies).

Poor little thing.

I think the little bit of romance left in my marriage died the day my husband witnessed me take out a blue food impaired rat with the poker.

I've heard they pee everywhere so all your surfaces where the furniture is might be covered and will need cleaning and bleaching

Revolting. Get pest control out, OP. Rats in the house are horrendous. Ignore all the 'poor little thing' idiots. Rats are destructive, disease-carrying vermin.

@RosesAndHellebores

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

In a lot of areas the ‘normal’ rubbish bin is green/green lidded - certainly where we were in Surrey the rubbish bin was all green (carcass and lid) while the recycling bin was green carcass with blue lid and, if you chose to pay the extortionate annual charge, the garden waste bin was brown carcass & lid.

@Princecharlesfirstwife

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Wow, it looks quite erm , fresh…….

Op, there’s someone’s school(?) photo upside down in the drawer in the first rat pic., in case you hadn’t noticed and don’t want it on MN!

@Nelliephant1

Oh no, poor little thing, what an awful way to go, they're such bright wee creatures, that's so sad. 😕

Hopefully you've got a nice tree or something in your garden where it can be buried, if not somewhere off the beaten track so it won't be disturbed would be best.

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Is it time to revisit my mouse in the toaster story? Maybe not.

That is definitely a rat.

Omg!!!!!

@viques

Is it time to revisit my mouse in the toaster story? Maybe not.

Have you posted about that on Mumsnet before? Every time I clean out my toaster (not very often) I am reminded of the dead mouse in toaster story I read once!

@CorvusPurpureus

ha ha ha

Aw poor thing. We have pet rats. 4 boys. They are the most amazing, clever and loving creatures. I wouldn't want to find a wild one though dead in a drawer. Looks like a fat healthy rat though and his tail looks furrier than our boys. I wonder how it got in there?

@Princecharlesfirstwife

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

😱

That looks fresh!
Have you had a rat problem in your home for a while?