Oh the most vile thing just happened

[KimmyChi]

Dark. Rural

Taking the wheely bin to the road (down the drive) , torch in hand

Bin lid not closed properly as it’s quite full

Pulling the bin behind me

A rat. A fucking RAT runs out of the bin, up my arm, over my shoulder and down my back.

Christ I can still feel it. I screamed like a pathetic idiot, threw the wheely bin on the floor and ran inside. The rat was running ALONGSIDE ME

Christ I’m never going outside again

I had 4 as pets. One used to jump off my shoulder, dive into the full kitchen sink and paddle around

I've just rescued 5 . All girls . Not big fat furry potatoes like boys are . But still...... getting to know them.

Urgh. Just Urgh.

We’re rural. I’ve obviously seen rats around. I don’t mind them that much really - from a distance. Not on me! I would definitely be screaming.

My neighbour shoots them with an air rifle. No complaints from me!

I’m never putting the bin out again

Gin is the answer to everything. Just saying

Now I can't walk past my bins on my way home.

Eeeeeeewwwwww

Mine has done that once

Woke up slightly when he jumped on the bed, woke up a lot when he dropped live rat on me....

2am chasing a rat round the bedroom

Bastard cat

OP, you need to contact Porton Down. They have level 4 biohazard decontamination chambers
😁

This one definitely had pink eyes. Perhaps it was domesticated - hence at the window. We've had them in the garden occasionally when they come in from the allotments at the back, and they always run off before we get too close.

I agree this is stuff of nightmares.

But couldn't help giggle at "ran alongside me" as you scarpered away from it 🤣🤣🤣

My parents ' neighbour had been to hospital for a few months. Neighbour was opening the bonnet of his car to check the oil when a big rat popped his head out from under the bonnet.

Neighbour screamed and let go of the bonnet which promptly fell, trapping the rat's neck.

The screams alerted my parents who came running. My dad actually took a photo of the rat and sent it to me! It's eyes were still open so it still looked alive. Body less rat head with pleading eyes staring up at you! Truly grim.

Beware of leaving a car unattended for months on end, all sorts of critters can take up residence whether in a garage or not.

Especially cars where there are crumbs or other detritus in them!!! Rats and mice have a very keen sense of smell so having an unclean car will be like rodent picnic time!

I know I will get some people coming at me for this but rats carry alot of disease so if you want to get rid of them from under your shed here is what I did. Steradent broken into pieces cover with peanut butter place near where you have seen a rat. Rats cannot burp but they drink a lot of water. The steradent kills them the same as rat poison does.

and to think I screamed when a rat popped its head out of a box in the shed, I was other side of the shed! if I was you I would burn everything in a 5 mile radius!

I was at the yard with my horses and one ran up my leg to my waist, hung on and then ran back down and legged it. Massive one too. Luckily I'm OK with rats, but if that had been a spider I'd have hit the roof.

Many years ago I was scooping out horse feed into a bucket from the bottom of a feedbin when something scuttled over my hand.

I shrieked several times but then curiosity and revulsion got the better of me so I peered into the feedbin and a little, rather cute mouse with big eyes and long whiskers stared up at me.

I then used an old horse vitamin supplement container which had a resealable lid to nudge the mouse into it with a bit of the horse feed.

I then made air holes in the top of the container with the end of scissors. The mouse was safe while I carried on looking after my horses.

There was a young girl who lived nearby who regularly came up to help with the horses. I told her I had a mouse in the container as I was going to deal with it later and release it a long way from the stables after lunch.

When I got back from lunch, the girl and the container had gone.

This was before the days of mobile phones so I rang her at home later on.

She told me she loved the mouse so much ( she had been keeping an eye on it through the holes in the lid ) and so she had decided it was to be her pet ( they lived in an immaculate, large new house where pets were forbidden ) and had taken it home.

I told her I didn't think her parents would be too pleased with that decision but she said she would look after it and it would be her secret pet!

I told it it was bad idea and she should release it back into the wild,far away from her home!

Anyway, she said ok, she went quiet and I was really alarmed that she wouldn't do this!

Anyway, every time she turned up at the stables I would ask her about the mouse and if she had released it yet as it needed water too, not just food.

She then confessed that when she had gone to give it a little pot of water, it had run up the side of the container and escaped out of her bedroom and out of the door!!!!

I was absolutely appalled but nothing was ever said about it to anyone and as far as I know, the parents never did find about the escaped mouse!

The rats are around because of us and our messy habits!
I once started clearing a compost bin and a huge rat leapt out of the remaining compost. It was certainly shocking.
As for killing rats with steradent, sounds revolting and cruel. There are plenty of rodent removal companies but the rats will return, they've always lived with people and always will. They have strong teeth, they're clever and we provide them with lots of food.

Longtime lurker, first-time poster on Ratsnet. Just want to know if IABU.

Last night I was enjoying a quiet dinner in my local wheelie bin when suddenly out of nowhere a human hand appeared over the side. I got the fright of my life and screamed bloody murder but it just hung on. The human then must have started dragging the bin because I was jostled and flung all over the shop. My dinner went flying.

Naturally I was terrified but managed to scramble out of the bin and onto the human. Just touching her gave me the heaves but down the back side of her was the quickest route to the ground.

Well you would have thought I had taken a big juicy bite out of her neck. Drool! (Sorry got distracted). The screaming! The language! I grew up in a rough environment but it still shocked me. She threw down the bin and started running.

I'm usually a bit of a doormat but I decided to give her a piece of my mind. How many times have I heard "fucking filthy rat" and turned the other hairy cheek to this ugly speciesism. (I'm sure with her friends she's all NARALT but when the smooth dry droppings hit the fan...).

I ran to catch her up and explain how her humanonormative discourse was invalidating my lived experience but she refused to engage and disappeared into the house.
So WIBU to try and assert myself?

@KimmyChi Nothing EVER makes me laugh on MN but you saying it was running alongside you cracked me up!

Other that that, Gross, you poor thing.

THUUUUMP!

( editors note. : Viques appears to have fainted, please initiate appropriate action)

This is why I always kick my compost bin before I open it, just in case…….

It’s like the first scene of a horror film!

Thoughts and prayers OP, thoughts and prayers.

Oh this is absolutely dreadful.

OP, that’s the most horrific thing I’ve ever heard. I’m never going near bins at night again. I already have to brace myself to open them just in case.

Apparently in the old days they would steal books of matches and take them back to.their nests filled with shredded paper and rubbish to chew. Sometimes they would manage to create a spark while chewing and cause a fire.

Omg 😱

Lol, I would scream even though I have 3 pet rats. 😅