Rats in toilets

[Jim K Global Moderator]

August 14, 2015 - A rat's ribs are hinged at the spine, enabling it to easily squeeze through the tightest spaces—like the pipes draining your toilet. And rats are great swimmers too; they can hold their breath for up to three minutes. See how quickly a rat can go from the city streets to your bathroom.

National Geographic Video showing how rats can get into your toilet.

 

"The rats are in the main sewer system, but when it rains it drives them into the sewer lines that run from your house to the street,'' says Randy Witten ofNature First Pest Control in Tigard. "A juvenile rat will try to return to the main line and run into an adult rat; the juvenile rat can either try and swim up the trap under the toilet or get eaten by the larger rat."

If the rat is large enough, Witten says, it can leap out of the toilet bowl and then it's in your house. More often, the rat treads water for as long as it can before it eventually drowns.

Multnomah County Vector Control receives 10 to 15 calls a year from people in Portland who have found rats—alive or dead— in a toilet, usually a ground level or basement toilet, says manager Chris Wirth.

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[Malechai Veteran]

  I may never go to the bathroom in the dark again. 

[Mockingbird]

It's pretty cool how rats can squeeze through constricted space.

Rats also have very good manners.

[+Warwagon MVC]

  I may never go to the bathroom in the dark again. 

Now, the next time you are on the toilet and you feel whiskers tickle your ######.

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Well as long as the rat doesn't think of my anus as another hole to crawl in.

[kaborka]

Well as long as the rat doesn't think of my anus as another hole to crawl in.

Sure you're not thinking about gerbils?

[Snoopy2005uk]

I have a pet rat, shes great

[DConnell Member]

Stories like this make me glad I have a cat!

[Draconian Guppy]

sitting on the toilet!