AIBU to never use my toilet again? *light hearted*

[Bleepinghell11]

I was happily watching TV when I heard an odd sound in my bathroom. Partner went to investigate, thinking maybe I had left a tap slightly on. He walks in and there was a RAT in my toilet!

I then had to fish it out as he was too scared. I was very cool, calm and collected and went about collecting the rat. I now realise that I just fished a dirty maybe pooey germ and possibly diseased infested rat out of my loo.

Would it be AIBU to bleach the whole house and have a bath with disinfectant in?! Or do I just get the toilet filled in and block off that part of the house?

[Bleepinghell11]

Birds, toads, rats... has any one had a snake as askyerfather suggested? It's like toilet bingo!

Herman oh no! Did you retrieve the bird post pee?

Manic that's interesting re. The eroded pipes, your poor friend though! I will definitely be enquiring about the valve thing as soon as my blood pressure has stopped spiking every time I need the loo.

[RubyReins]

Spent all of Monday night chasing a rat about my bedroom with a broom and a Morrisons bag. Bastarding thing ran into my closet where it spent the whole night crashing against the locked door and chewing through (DH's towel) that I had stuffed up against the bottom of the door. Got a rat man in who assured me it had gone. Open the bedroom door to see said rat, the size of a fecking chimpanzee, sitting in the middle of the floor. Rat man returned and eventually got it on Wednesday (and showed me that he had). Haven't slept since.

[Mittens1969]

Another experience from Africa, Uganda this time. We used to have to use a latrine outside, i.e. a hole in the ground. I never saw any rats, but there were cobras. I used to live in fear of needing a wee during the night, thankfully I never did.

[LoveMySituation]

If rats swim towards the light, does that mean you're ok if you never switch the bathroom light on?

[Libitina]

By the time my fat ass is on the loo, there is no light to swim towards!

[LoveMySituation]

Libitina

[NorthStarGrassman]

I was in the shower once and had a snake come up through the plug hole and slither over my foot (not UK obviously!). That experience has stayed with me.

Slightly less horrifying but still quite bad was sitting on the toilet looking vacantly at a pipe on the wall thinking "funny, that pipe looks bigger than usual and an odd sort of shape". There was a massive snake coiled round it.

[Mittens1969]

Wow that's scary lol. I did once see a scorpion in my room; I was very grateful for the mosquito net that night, I can tell you!

[Elendon]

I once flushed a large moth down the loo (couldn't get it out of the house, love butterflies and moths but the children were screaming and what could I do? It was the size of a small bat.)

Went to the toilet an hour later and it was still there. So I decided it had to live and be freed at all costs. I have to say I didn't feel any trepidation about it and just captured it with a large glass and stiff paper and set it free. I did have words with it though.

[Picoloangel]

Ruby Reins

Just I would have left. You are made of strong stuff. Little bastard hiding from the Ratcatcher. It was laughing at you.

[RubyReins]

We almost went to a hotel!