Mouse in the toilet?!

aileth

I have absolutely no idea where to ask this, but maybe some families have come across it?! I've just got home from work and gone to the downstairs toilet which is normally closed but had been open today. There was a small mouse (2 inch body length) dead in the water!!!!! OH said he hasn't put any cat presents down there, and the cats have both been out all day and still are out. How the bloody hell did a tiny mouse make it into the toilet?! There's no way it could climb up. Do I need the exterminators? Freaking out!!

peachyprice

Simplest explanation is that a cat has come home at some stage and has been throwing it around in there and it's landed in the pan. Mine have thrown them as high as the sideboard and over the TV before.

gunsandbanjos

Has it fallen off another surface into the toilet?

aileth

The cats have been out all day and the toilet had nothing in it three hours ago! There's no way for them to access higher than the bowl!

Tish_P

Mice can jump higher than you'd think if they have to - about 18 inches, which will get them onto most toilet seats. If you've been seeing droppings / greasy tracks in the kitchen call the exterminators, but if not, it's probably a wild mouse the cats brought in that had got thirsty.

aileth

Tish_P wrote: »

Mice can jump higher than you'd think if they have to - about 18 inches, which will get them onto most toilet seats. If you've been seeing droppings / greasy tracks in the kitchen call the exterminators, but if not, it's probably a wild mouse the cats brought in that had got thirsty.

Well I feel quite bad now if he managed to escape kitties and evade them all night to then fall victim to the toilet

gunsandbanjos

peachyprice wrote: »

Simplest explanation is that a cat has come home at some stage and has been throwing it around in there and it's landed in the pan. Mine have thrown them as high as the sideboard and over the TV before.

Wow, that's impressive!

My two like to torment any visiting arachnids.

ellay864

I sympathise OP...I found a mouse in my toilet last week only it was alive! What was worse was that it was first thing in the morning, I was half asleep and assumed DH had failed to flush properly...so I flushed only to watch in horror as the 'poo' grew legs and a tail and was gasping for breath. Somehow it survived the flush and was obviously a strong swimmer!
In my case we know my cat brings mice in and we knew she'd brought this one in a few days earlier, we'd set traps but hadn't caught it. But the night the mouse made it to the loo the cat was shut out (to avoid more mouse presents being brought in). I have been told they can jump or climb pretty impressively.
Having said that based on what a work colleague told me and subsequent googling, it does seem that rodents can actually come in through the pipe system.

Kynthia

I once found a frog in the toilet bowl! My mum didn't believe me, so I made her come upstairs to show her. There is no way it got in the house, came up the stairs and jumped into the bowl so it must have climbed the pipe.

aileth

Kynthia wrote: »

I once found a frog in the toilet bowl! My mum didn't believe me, so I made her come upstairs to show her. There is no way it got in the house, came up the stairs and jumped into the bowl so it must have climbed the pipe.

Oh my god!!! Unfortunately my OH didn't get back toll 3 hrs after I found it and I was desperate so flushed him. I think he thinks I've been on the vino lol!!

kjmtidea

This reminded me of this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338972/Caught-camera-The-horrifying-moment-live-RAT-crawls-round-u-bend-couples-toilet.html