Has this happened to anyone? It's freaked me out a bit. I HATE them.
2006-12-31 06:22:27 · 31 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Alice - OMG!!!! I'd have moved out - seriously. Just the thought of it makes me feel sick. Happy New Year, babe x
2006-12-31 06:47:52 · update #1
YES THEY CAN, HAPPENED TO ME, FREAKED ME OUT TO. I REALLY HAD TO GO THEN I STARTED SCREAMING FOR MY HUSBAND, HE JUST FLUSHED IT DOWN THE SAME WAY IT HAD COME UP. WE LIVE IN AN OLD FARM HOUSE, THAT THE CITY GREW AROUND. I ALWAYS KEEP THE LID DOWN ON THE STOOL NOW AND TURN ON THE LIGHT TO SEE IF ANYTHINGS IN THERE. ONLY HAPPENED ONCE AND THAT'S ENOUGH.
2006-12-31 06:26:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
SIGH.
Consider a few things. WHY? first of all, would they want to?
Consider then, these things. The size of a rats lungs, and the structure of it's feet. How long might a rat be able to hold it's breath without a mini aqua lung as it navigates sewers. Then there is the issue of climbing a verticle pipe, slick with waste and water, then having to move throuh "P" traps, etc, to end up floating in a "bowl" made of fired, glazed porceline, filled with at least a gallon and a half of water, which again, the rat will have to swim in????????????????? WITH NO WAY OUT.
I realize the size of a rats brain is tiny, but they put theirs to better use than humans do, probably, and their options are so great with regards to where else they might spend time.
Steven Wolf
2006-12-31 14:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen it happen, because the waste pipe is either three or four inches, and the rat would have to jump up inside of the base of the toilet, swim down through the p-trap, and come up inside the bowl. It's not at all likely.
On the other hand, they have been known to crawl upwards into the plumbing vent, and up onto the roof.
I had one job where they were getting into the attic, because the plumbing vent stopped in the attic, and didn't penetrate the roof.
Man, there were rats all through that place!
2006-12-31 14:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by Lion J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never thought it could be true, but YES, THEY CAN. We had a really interesting article in Seattle Weekly last year about rats in Seattle. I've linked the article below, but here is what it says about rats in toilets and what to do if it happens:
"If you find a rat in your toilet, try to remain calm, counsels Don Pace. He is one of two workers who kill rats in Seattle's sewers, and he says the first thing you should do if a rat shows up in your toilet is shut the lid. "They can jump out," he says. Next, with the lid closed, take a bottle of dishwashing soap and squirt it into the bowl by using the opening between the seat and the rim of the toilet. The dishwashing soap makes the bowl and the pipe below it slippery, making it hard for the rat to get any traction. Then flush the toilet. Usually the rat goes down and doesn't come back."
2006-12-31 14:33:29 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Jenn ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try reading the stories at the sites listed in sources: rats are the least of it! Apparently it's fairly common in some places. Ugh!
2006-12-31 15:34:24 · answer #5 · answered by books2091 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donna I don't want you to think I am a dirty scumbag but I had 3 rats living in my house during the summer...they came in under my kitchen sink and travelled up and down inside the wall where the pipes are, one minute they would be gnawing in the loft and then they would be in the bathroom sink...my husband put traps down and killed them (he bashed their cunning little brains out)...every time I needed to use the bathroom someone would have to go in before me with a broom (just in case) I nearly had a nervous break down I can tell you x
2006-12-31 14:38:41 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I once went into the bathroom and a snake appeared from out of the toilet bowl .... twas a case of snakes and bladders
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how can one man be so fuuuuuuuuuunnnnny? eh?
2006-12-31 18:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a rat would drown first, but there are stories the other way around, like people flushing baby aligators and them growing in the sewer system.
2006-12-31 14:28:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All toilets have S shaped traps which would prevent a rodent from being able to pass through.
Snakes, on the other hand....
2006-12-31 14:24:55 · answer #9 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it can happen, I saw it happen in NYC when I first moved here and lived the WTC empty pit. There are lots of rats and fodd to feed them.
2006-12-31 14:47:50 · answer #10 · answered by Elizabeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋