Omg what to do - massive RAT!

[Amimissingsomethinghere]

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!

It might be unfair to blame rat fleas for The Great Plague. Interesting.

So you actually lifted the grate up? How did you have the balls to do that?

Plague came from FLEAS, not rats. It's just there was an abundance of rats about at the time so that is how it initially spread. A different type of rats from the ones we see now adays (brown vs black) though.

Also, rat diseases? As opposed to what, pigeon diseases you mean? Oh wild rabbit diseases? Or deer diseases? Umm yeah, newsflash, wild animals are dirty - so you probably shouldn't eat off them or use them to wash with xD

It doesn't mean you stand about and let an animal suffer when you hear it calling out. Or at least, want to help it even if you are afraid. Like pp said, unless you are a sociopath.

I love seeing the rat defenders on here, they are amazing creatures that show empathy and kindness to each other. Better than a lot of humans and they were here first.

At previous workplace (warehouse) pest control put those sticky mats down. Opened up next morning to , I kid you not, 23 screaming stuck on rats!! They were actually screaming

Some had started to chew off their own limbs in their blind panic to escape. Rat person just casually killed them off one by one horrific

I didn’t eat all day I felt so sick

Could you give your rat something to eat and drink while you are waiting for help,its possibly hungry now.!

Yeah those sticky mat things are horrid. Poor you

I think there’s a healthy balance to be struck between inflicting/allowing straight up cruelty to wild rats and, you know, licking them or however one imagines one might catch a disease from them

So you actually lifted the grate up? How did you have the balls to do that?
Please, we’ve already established penis/testicles not required for lifting grates

Wiles disease.... rat urine

Anyone could get it,rats wee over everything so all it takes is hands in mouth.

Don't pull the grate up! If you get bitten, you are in trouble. I feel sorry for the poor rat, but no way would I go pulling up the grate.

The grate is up. The rat has gone. Back into the drain. How else did anyone think it got there? It was never trapped.

Story's over, folks. Happy ending.

Rats are vile. They eat human (and any) excrement!
There is a surge in them chewing thier way into domestic drain pipes as they apparently seek warmth in our homes. They apparently chew the pipe and any sewage en-route to the toilet pan.
The lame advice in the article I read was to make sure you put the loo lid down!! Personally I'd be putting a breeze block on top of it too in your case OP.
If it can chew it's way through pipes, eat shit and sewage I doubt the loo lid will be much of an obstacle!!

Tbf dogs eat shit too. Yet everyone loves them. People even let them lick their faces lol.

Kyvia

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Sorry, of course

But how did she??!

OnTopOfTheWardrobe

Don't pull the grate up!

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I don't claim to be the sharpest tool in the box, but keep up!

My dog has never eaten shit thanks.

I couldn't have lifted the grate up. That rat might've been in distress but it wouldn't have been in half as much distress as me.

Last Summer we had one on our bird feeder by the kitchen window. I saw it just as I'd put the oven on to do tea. I managed to slam the window shut and that was it. I phoned DH at work in tears, he thought there was a dire emergency, it was to me. By the time he'd got home an hour and a half later I'd ordered £50 worth of traps and poison. I'd not had a wee because I was scared of it coming up the toilet and hadn't finished tea because I was too scared to go back in the kitchen.

I bloody hate rats and mice. I can't look at them in a pet shop or on the tele or in a book. If someone posts a picture on Fb I have to hide it. I just can't cope with them.

Thankyou @RadicalFern he'd like you to know he is available for rat removal... pigeon removal, shouting pointlessly at squirrels that he can't catch and he'd shit himself if one got near him cos they are mega double hard bastards, oh and he's very good at removing peoples lunches, dinners, puddings etc.

Number 1 Twatdog but he has saved us from a few wild rats in his time (and he totally ignored our pet rats when we had those!)

Kyvia best thing ive ever read.please help me come up with reasons/scenarios where i can use this in every day life. all the time!

Hmm. Not convinced...

So I used a really long spoon (random I know but I wanted to chuck it after) and stood on a high ledge next to it, bend down and pulled it up from the other end.
It didn't move and then suddenly bolted into the drain. The cover was previously blocking that entrance so I don't know how it got there. Pest control are going to have a good look today! I didn't sleep very well! And now the baby is up... joy.

The cat dropped a dead squirrel on my doorstep the other day. Can’t believe how like rat it was. I used to love them, it was hideous, just a rat with a bushy not bald tail.

Well done OP You dealt with it in a much more humane way than I previously have!

Oh god. The rat coming up the toilet happened to my GPs.

I was staying, went to the toilet, opened the lid and there it was. In the fucking toilet. Just looking at me with it's evil, beady eyes.
I just about died there and then...

Okay, bit dramatic. But I did let out the biggest (involuntary) scream, which caused everyone in the house to run up the stairs. My dad 'noped' it but my grandad got to work with the toilet brush, trying to flush the fucking thing back down.
I couldn't use the loo for the rest of the day, to the point I drove home.

Still check the bowl before I sit down, even now.

A bit of my soul died that day...