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

Eurgh rats make me shiver. Myself and ds was at the local hospital walking from one building to another, and right there on the pavement was a dead rat with 3 baby rats feasting on it, literally rummaging around in its stomach 🤢 omg we are both still traumatised from that image !!

i popped to the loo in my local cafe and found a light coloured stringy worm thing in the loo, I recon it was some kind of parasite from the person who last had a poo

Me too

We have one in our stables. I say one, who knows. I never see it.

My cat has killed a few babies in the past and brought them to me (bengal) through the kitchen window (nice) or left them at the door outside. He’s killed the few odd big ones too.

They do have long tails.

I don’t stare long enough though to take note - I’m usually screaming at the husband to get rid of it.

My other two cats just sit my the fire or on the windowsills, but they are normal cats and are super lazy and not bengal. I doubt they’d blink if a rat came up the toilet.

My bengal sleeps with me and I think I’ll be encouraging him to continue!!

Yes, rats occasionally come up from the sewer and are trapped in the toilet. The local council used to send a pest control operative round to sort it, free (paid for out of the council tax or 'rates' as it used to be, in private dwellings). I don't know if that is still the case.

However, Seagreen, it is a very rare occurrence and not something I've ever experienced. I'd say look before you sit down :-).

This thread should be filed away in the 'it never happened' section.

Yikes - worse nightmare plus I didn’t know rat blockers were a thing either. I’ll sleep well tonight!

Sorry but it reminds me of the time my brother woke us all up screaming that he'd found giant woodlice in his bed. In our sleepy panicked states we frantically started searching for them in the covers and under the bed before it collectively dawned on us that giant woodlice probably didn't exist.

Yes this is what I’d assume.

Although having said that, I was unaware of the possibility of toilet rats.

School holidays isn’t it. All the strange threads come out late and then the op doesn’t comment.

it didn’t happen.

It could have been the toilet goblin that I read about on a couple of threads earlier in the week ...

I once saw a big earthworm in the toilet. Still remember the horror of thinking it had somehow come from me - but turns out they can get into the plumbing through a cracked pipe.

Squirt washing up liquid down it.

https://publichealthinsider.com/2023/01/18/what-to-do-if-a-rat-comes-up-your-toilet/

And that’s why you should always leave the toilet lid down at all times, including when flushing (spray). Any men who leave both lid and seat up should be shown this thread.

Has she got worms?

Snake owner, can assure you any solid black coloured snake that would be in the UK is non venomous, IF it was a snake its likely a mexican black king, which is not native and would be someones escaped pet.

Rats are not pretty rare and they don't struggle to get into the house, they easily go back down without drowning. When we got the council out they lifted a manhole cover in the garden and put down poison and sorted it out (I made a previous post about a rat in the toilet). There was evidence of rats down there. We lived in a row of Victorian houses and they said it's very common and weren't a bit surprised by it.

The 'frame' is the toilet

Omfg. I thought talk of rats in snakes in toilets was made up. I lived in Australia for 18 years. Scary shit.

We had a rat in our toilet once. We are off grid for sewerage and it came up from the imhoff tank. What i will say is it was thrashing about in the toilet bowl, and you could hear the splashing and clawing from downstairs. It exited back up the u bend once i lifted the lid. They also absolutely stink, so i think you'd probably know if you'd had a rat in a small bathroom. Perfectly possible though, and i do now always check before sittihg down! If it troubles you, get some wire mesh, and put it over the waste outlet pipe.

What an opportunity missed for a thread titled "There's a rat in me toilet what am I gonna do?"

Oh, we had a toilet rat once! During lockdown. Barricaded shut the downstairs loo and took a live and let live approach.

If it was during the night she’s probably having night visions. Just when your brains half asleep it makes images from shadows - mine does it all the time. They feel incredibly real but they’re not

Yep, or a Russian rat snake. Mine is fully black at the narrowest part of his tail

So if it was a rat, you need a terrier like a Jack Russell but if it was a snake you need a mongoose.
I hope they get on well.