Rat in the toilet

Interesting. Found this online. Apparently rats follow the scent of food from your kitchen drain, but can't get in that way, so they hit the toilet.

Here's a handy-dandy guide courtesy of Seattle Public Health:

Keep rats out of sewer pipes
Rats have a great sense of smell. They can follow the scent of food washed down drains by garbage disposals and dish washing.

Keep your kitchen sink rinsed clean and use garbage disposals as little as possible.
Clean your drain! Use 1 cup of baking soda followed by 1 cup of vinegar and rinse with boiling water. You can also use 1 cup of bleach and rinse with boiling water.
Clean your kitchen sink drain monthly.
Never pour grease or oils down the drain.

 

Read this thread while sitting on the toilet in the dark. Figured the whole time some little bugger with a tail and those two big front teeth was about to climb up the bowl and clamp on. And yet I could not click away and stand up.

There's a nice visual for you all.

 

You forgot the part about the greases and the oils, grandpa. Tell us about the greases and the oils. And the tapeworms.

 

What is that even supposed to mean? I think you missed the tone of the post there -- the first word is what I did, past tense, as in 'I read this ...", not a command, 'Go read this ...".

You want grease and oils? Clean 'em outta yer ears, bull.

 

I dissected a rat in a vertebrate zoology lab. My lab partner and I named him "Harold," after a dude who was dating my ex that semester.

I've seen one rat and no mice in the six years I've lived in my current house. My cats took care of it. But that rat had the biggest nut sack I've ever seen. Seeing that thing scraping down my hallway is seared into my memory.

 

"You know, I heard you have balls big enough to come in a dump truck. But you don't look like much to me."

"Opinions vary."

 

I am Rattus Norvegicus.
I’m sitting in some shit-hole rat’s nest and I’m a little angry.
I wanted to be a talk show host, not a rat.
You men think you have it bad with women?
I’ve got it a lot worse let me tell you.
What am I gonna say to some nice looking girl who I want to meet?
I can tread water for over 36 hours?
I can chew through lead pipes and cinderblocks?
I can run on telephone wires?!
And what if I do get the girl home?
Can’t fit her though the door - it’s too small.
Yeah, I got a lot of gripes.
How’d you like to have a tail the length of your body to drag around all the time?
Not my idea of fun by a long shot!
And do you see the neighborhoods that I’m forced to live in?
Those people live like pigs!
Can’t catch the subway - they haven’t built it yet.
Can’t catch the up - town bus I can’t reach the step-up.
Hey, taxi!
And everyone,
Wants to kill me,
Feed me drugs and poison,
Put electrodes in my head and make me run on treadmills.
Dissect, bisect and infect me.
Burn, blind, mane and tame me.
Are you folks crazy?!
You never invite me to your parties, as if I would really wanna go anyhow.
Have you ever asked me to go to a movie?
How about bowling?
You ever seen a rat cry?
I've got tears.
And I have a heart,and I got brains.
If you could just see past the fur,
I think that you would see
That I’m a lot like you.

 

Could you imagine having a kid, learning to potty train and you go in with him or her and you got a rat swimming in your toilet?

That kid would never grow out of diapers, it would freak them out so bad.

And I once trapped a rat in an old house.

The packaging made it look so easy, place sticky trap on the floor, put a chunk of peanut butter on it and then once the rat is trapped, you put it in the trash can.

What they don't tell you is that the rat is like super pissed about being on the sticky trap and its gyrations move it. I eventually cornered the rat and the trap and flung it off my deck.

But I swear that thing was like a chuppacabra in size and strength.

 

I had the "Family Man" cassette. To this day, whenever we're someplace that's not so nice, we say to each other "I’m sitting in some shit-hole rat’s nest and I’m a little angry."

 

I'm hoping that someone posts a link to a news story announcing that all rats on earth have spontaneously combusted.

 

This is why we have a septic tank.

Well, this and the fact that the city sewer system doesn't reach our house.