Omg what to do - massive RAT!

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Sorry didn't know where to post. I kept hearing squealing noises all evening (thought it was a trapped kitten - live in central London ground floor flat). Look outside, RIGHT outside my back door I look down to the drain and there's a mothetfucking huge ass rat there obviously stuck.
I've tried calling pest control no luck. Husband is away and I'm alone with a baby and freaked out.
Please help!

You need to let it out as otherwise when the water subsides it might make its way back up through your toilet

As someone with pet rats this makes me so sad :(

I wish I were closer so I could let him out.

It's not a pet rat though. It's a dirty sewer rat!

basil90

Oh my fucking God that is a terrifying thought

Woman up, OP, help the rat escape. That’ll solve both your and ratty’s problems. And don’t presume to speak for all Londoners that we fear rats thankyou very much! They’re just part of city life, not worth freaking out about.

Lol at fire brigade 😂 I've heard it all now. Someone's perishing in a burning building while the fire fighters are busy lifting rats out of sewer grates 😂

It's not a budgie! Sorry but that made me chuckle.

Oh for goodness sake. No need for wellies or anything. Just use a coat hanger, lift the crate. It'll be out and away in a flash.

Rats may be vermin, but they are still living, sentient beings capable of fear and pain, the same as any other mammal.

Can't abide squeamish 'oh, DH is away, how can I cope' helplessness.

Do you have a grenade?

No it's not a pet rat it's a wildie. But that doesn't mean it deserves to die a slow death trapped somewhere.

Plenty of people I know have raised wild rats and they can be just as sweet as domesticated rats.

I'm not telling OP to swaddle it and give it a bottle but I think she could just find a way to lift the grate and let the poor thing out.

I'd be terrified too but would open the grate.

Ffs just pull the cover off. As suggested by a pp, use a wire coat hanger or bbq tongues or something if you're that bothered.

We have outbuildings and livestock. So I know they're vermin and the population needs to be kept under control. But one poor petrified animal dying slowly and miserably isn't going to make any bloody difference.

And don't pretend leaving an animal to suffer is vermin control, it's just cruelty. Either instantly kill them or release them, not this cuntish attitude to distress because it's 'only' a rat.

Being alone with a baby is a pathetic excuse, it's a small distressed animal, not Charles fucking Manson

Can't abide squeamish 'oh, DH is away, how can I cope' helplessness.

Agreed - are we expecting that if DH was home, he’d be lifting up the grate using his penis? No? Then you can do it just as easily!

We consider rats vermin in London

🙄 I live in London and I would do what a pp suggested, wellies on, backdoor closed and open the grid. I have caught mice word just an old Tupperware box with no issues. Not all Londoners are helpless, you’re giving us a bad name, OP.

Those kind of grates usually just lift out. I've got some at the front of my house covering a soak away and can easily move them with my fingers when I clear out accumulated debris like leaves - - and giant worms--. Anyway if you're squeamish just use the end of a screwdriver or similar to prise it up, and then go back inside... the rat won't leap out into your face or anything, poor creature. And yes, brown rats carry germs but they're everywhere in London and all Londoners will at one time or another have touched something a rat's crawled over, and be none the wiser, or any worse off for doing so.

Beside the point of this thread I know but pet rats are affectionate little things and fascinating.

are we expecting that if DH was home, he’d be lifting up the grate using his penis

Being alone with a baby is a pathetic excuse, it's a small distressed animal, not Charles fucking Manson

It's not a pathetic excuse at all. My biggest fear is rats and mice. There would be no effing way I'd be lifting that cover.
I freak out seeing one run around I must be so pathetic

Wait for pest control.

Please help it. It sounds like it's suffering.

Plenty of people I know have raised wild rats

who the fuck does this ^

I believe grown rats are incredibly intelligent and have the IQ a 2YO child.

Widdlin your dog is beautiful!

SittingAround... People in the rat rescue community. We often get litters of abandoned wild babies or injured adolescents.

, actually. I doubt it's trapped.

Sorry I love all animals but did laugh at rat rescue community

We rescue all small animals from Guinea pigs to mice. Not sure why that is funny