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

Whst kind of worms???

@x2boys don't even bother.

This. It’s the only way.

I was thinking round worms or maybe tapeworms. Often first realise children have them when you see them in the toilet bowl.

Mumsnet really needs to add the shocked face reaction.

My vote's for a ringworm.

When I was a child a cousin was staying with us and my mum found a ringworm in the toilet after she'd 'been'. Being of a practical mind my mum insisted on showing us all the worm so that if we saw one in the future we'd know what it was. Decades have passed but I haven't forgotten that sight!

We all got dosed with horrific medicine in case it had been left over from one of us and not the cousin.

Do you mean Tapeworm?

Ringworm is a fungal skin infection.

Flush the toilet before you open the lid, all nasties will be washed away. Flush after.

We had two rats in house in last ten years. I have read conflicting stories about them entering toilet through drains.

I found the access to waste drain at rear of house. Normally a rectangle metal cover about 2 square feet in area. Lift It up and fit the cover on link below. Costs £10 and takes 5 minutes.

https://plumbing4home.com/products/anti-rat-rodent-barrier-110mm-toilet-drain-waste-valve

Not had rat in house since it was fitted.

Pour a bottle of bleach down the toilet and shut the lid. Then flush with the lid closed several times before opening.

During a Covid lockdown, the rats and mice in the city where my DD lived had no food sources from restaurant bins and her flat (old building) was scurrying with them. They love garden decking too.

Yes. Years ago I got up to use the toilet in the night and wondered why the floor was wet (downstairs bathroom). Upon investigation, I found a hole had been chewed through the waste pipe by rodent teeth. Got the pipe replaced, it happened again. Rats had tunneled under the path and got in through the waste pipe. Had to get pest control in. I'm not scared of rats, but if I'd gone for a nocturnal wee and found one in the bathroom, I'd have shit myself 😂

Drain fly larva. It happened once at my flat (I live in Spain). Grim. My flatmate at the time texted me freaking out as I was away.

I would bet 50 pounds on it.

Possible we found one at my aunties in Birmingham. Very possible

I'd tip a couple of bottles of bleach down there too

Burn the house down pronto

We started smelling something less than sweet in our loo, ended up removing the panels behind the toilet to find the flexible soil pipe from the toilet into the pipe in the floor had a whole load of rat teeth marks through it.

The pipe itself was white and there was a gap at the end of the units that probably let enough light in for ratty, who presumably had wandered up from the main sewer to get adventurous.

At least no one felt whiskers on their bum 😆

We had a squirrel gnaw its way through the plastic s-bend - it had come down the stink pipe, which a crap roofer had left without a mesh cover. We assumed it was rats until the rather surprised pest control person came back to check poison bait and found a dead squirrel (if they had known it was a squirrel they would have used different methods).