My baby just put a dead shrew in her mouth

[BaylisAndHardon]

Posting in AIBU for traffic, and to ask for a hand hold while I get over this horror.

We live in an old victorian house (with many mouse holes) in the country and have a cat to manage the rodent populus, but he also sometimes brings things in . I always check the floor of the snug for anything and disinfect/scrub if he has before putting her down to play.

But this time he put it under a toy in her play pen and I didn't see it and she picked it up and put it in her mouth before I could lauch myself at her to get it out. I am horrified.

Messages of support please. Also accounts of children who have survived to adulthood after putting disgusting things in their mouths. Tell me your worst. I need to hear it.

My daughter picked a cat poo out of the litter tray and came through saying'What da?" and holding it aloft. Much hand scrubbing!

My nephew once tasted a slug in the garden, spat it straight out again. He's now 30 and he and his wife have just had their first baby.

@gardenbird48

I am howling with laughter!

When I was small I ate coal. Not only did I eat worms i would dig them up to eat! My DGF used to encourage me to eat the small bugs off homegrown salad. One day you will laugh at this!

My cat left a severed cat head on the back door step. Cue my DD, 3, walking around with a tube of UHT looking for a body to glue it back onto and make it better. She also asked if I could find a mouse as she wanted to feed it to the cat. The reason being that she had just seen the cat eat one and was worried that it would get lonely all on it's own in the cat's stomach!

ds1 used to lick everything. Toddler group he would crawl across the primary school hall floor licking it blurrrgghh

Arthersleep a severed cat head?! Is your cat Michael Myers?

According to my family, my cousin ate a cigarette when she was 1. I assume she actually had one bite because why on earth would you have more, but they all say it was a whole one...

My this thread has taken a dark turn... 😂😂

I can only offer my two eating cat litter and cat food

I can't stop laughing at the PP whose son dared her daughter to lick the cats bum

My DD used to lick the underside of snails. I also once discovered a dead mouse in her room that she had found and had been keeping “as a pet” for several days.

I had to remind my DD regularly not to lick toilet seats when she was about 18 months

Toddlers are grimm little beasts at times!

Growing up in rural Africa my sister (toddler at the time) used to stuff her cheeks full of shongolos 😁😁 Apparently a crunchy but soppy delight!

Sorry all.i meant a dead mouse dead!!!

Dead mouse's head. Damn autocorrect!

I think the snails are probably the most dangerous thing for children to eat out of all the odd insects - they can carry a very very dangerous parasite. I ate a slug once. I dont remember it. My mother remembers prising it out of my mouth very clearly indeed...

A scab.

A stranger's scab. About the size of a 50p.

My sister once scoffed down an entire bowl of muesli soaked in cat piss! My mother used to leave the muesli in a large platter on the sideboard for breakfast every morning. I walked in to find my kitten having a good scratch around having just alleviated itself. Seconds later, my older sister waltzes in and helps herself to a large bowl. Had she not been so mean to me, I might have been kind enough to forewarn her. Instead, I left the room in a fit of barely contained giggles. She was 18 at the time. She's still none the wiser and I still chuckle about it to this day.

A friend’s son (youngest of four, so not a lot of close attention!) kept a dead squirrel which he carried around and took to bed with him for about four days before anyone realised what this furry new ‘pet’ actually was...

My brother ate the contents of his own potty as a toddler he's now 57.

My son had several meals of cat food over his crawling period..... numerous times I'd find him with cat biscuits in his mouth and even worse, the meat and jelly all around his mouth too! He also had a thing for earth out of plant pots! He's the healthiest 12 year old now and has hardly ever been ill......I put it down to building his immune system up early on!

I once apparently ran to my parents to tell them my younger brother was eating stones. When they went to investigate they found out the "stones" were actually sheep poo.

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel Oh my god 🤮🤮🤮🤮.

I remember my sister as a toddler eating white dog poo, wondering what all the fuss was about, this was 50 years ago and I still remember it.

Have just remembered seeing my youngest DD eating a snail!!!

When I was two I ate a penny coin.

My mum was so worried she had to rummage through the contents of my potty to check it had passed through, which it did!