Dd saw a snake in toilet

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Dd(8) just screamed from the toilet, she says there was a black snakes tail moving about. She drew the photo.

nothing by the time I got there, I’ve flushed it.

Is that possible? What do I do? DH is at work

That was my first thought 🤣 “no there isn’t, goodnight!” I suppose we’d be the ones surprised by a morning snake if this is true though!

Yes it's possible - it's more likely if it's a downstairs toilet.

This is what the drainage system to your downstairs loo looks like:

https://www.emergencycompany.co.uk/uploads/1/2/6/0/126041432/20190827-102101_orig.jpg

The staight pipe will go straight out of your property and connect to the mainline sewer in the road. The pipes on the right connect to your toilet and sink drainage.

As you can see (unless you have rat blockers fitted) they are totally open. There is nothing to stop a rat or a snake making its way along the pipe from the main sewer to below your property and then up the pipe into the loo.

It's more likely at night when there is no/less flushing activity.

It is totally the reason why you should always always put the loo seat down on any downstairs loo overnight unless you've had rat blockers fitted.

I meant always close the loo lid at night rather than the loo seat down but you know what I meant.

Why did i read this?
Now I have to get back up and go put the seat down.

Don’t just close the lid, you need to put something heavy on top. Rats can open the lid.

I have heard of both rats and snakes coming up the toilet.

My uncles next door neighbour came round to tell him they had lost their massive snake and to look out. 3 weeks later my uncle found it on his stairs just chilling after getting in some way. My uncle is convinced it came through the toilet. How long it had been slithering round my uncles who knows. On a plus point I had chased and caught many mice in his house and this solved that problem. The snake must have thought it was at an all you can eat buffet. Yes we are in the UK before anyone assumes we are in Australia 😬

I am off to bed now. Sleep well all!

Both a snake and a rat could get through a closed lid, I'm sorry, but you are going to have to get back up and put something heavy on it 🤣

I am reminded of a story I heard lovely David Attenborough tell once about how he was off on his travels somewhere, went to the toilet, sat down and a rat jumped up between his legs……

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/david-attenborough-im-petrified-rats-1820290

I’d put plenty of bleach in the bowl before bed. Surely it would turn round and leave rather than endure that? Also, while I can see them lifting a lightweight plastic lid, they couldn’t really lift a heavy porcelain lid could they?

Only thing to do

But if the snake is in your toilet, you might well be bitten - right on your bot-bot!! 🤣🤣

… though on second thoughts if it escapes and runs through the house it would be like a bleach bomb bleaching things.

Oh my god, the idea of you being so soft-hearted as to feed it a lunchable before it was euthanised is SO SWEET! How insanely nice of you! I'm sure it enjoyed its little treat immensely, and it's not like it would have known anything about its fate! I've had mice a few times and I hated to have them killed too, but if you don't, they just come back and in greater numbers, like you said. It's unavoidable.

But this one had a lunchable. 🤗 You're going to heaven for that, OP!

Could hear it in the u-bend, squeaking!!!!! Oh. My. God. Just when you don't think it can get any worse!!!!!!

I’d rather have a snake than a rat 😭

My friend was a vet nurse and lived above the practice. One morning, she went into the bathroom and there was a snake from downstairs curled up in the bath, where she was about to take a shower! 🤣

For me, I think they're as bad as each other!

Snake - so unlikely as to be impossible in the UK.

Native snakes are not trying to get in our homes, they're happy with their own, and whilst they can climb to some degree depending on the object they're climbing/surface they're climbing, all the way up a foul drain to your toilet bowl is again nigh on impossible for our snakes.

Non-native snake is fractionally more likely but they're not seeking out cold wet foul drains/sewers, they want warmth, and underwater is not most snakes natural territory so you'd see a head poking out, not a tail disappearing.

Rat - possible, more likely if its a downstairs toilet, but again pretty rare and you're much more likely to have a soggy rat scrabbling desperately to get out once a route out is visible (ie, lifting the lid) than a tail trying to go back the way it came. Dead rat.. maybe but they tend to float belly up/butt up not 'everything but the tail round the U-bend'. A dead rat someone has flushed would jam and bob back up, or flush completely, again its not likely to be jammed with only the tail showing, then disappear.

This happened to my son in his new flat ,
It was a rat

Burn down the old house too!

Omg 😲 I'd die!

A rat won't do anything to you. Let it out, trap it and release.

They can appear black 😣 OMG this thread is fucking terrifying. But an excellent point of reference to my partner and his parents in my ‘keep the bloody toilet lid DOWN!’ argument.

Still 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱!!!!!!!!!!

What floor did he live on? How many floors up can they climb?

Whether the tail of a rat or a snake, it was departing the premises at speed, so I'd be more worried about whatever larger scarier thing it was scarpering from. Have you checked under the beds? ; )