Her daughter said the rodent got out into the bathroom until her son managed to get rid of it.ДЇollowing a similar incident of a rat found in a New York City toilet in January 2011, Brooklyn Pest Control exterminator Eddie Marco said it was a problem he had often dealt with. When Mrs Woods was on holiday, she received a panicked phone call from her daughter, who was pregnant at the time, telling her that a rat had escaped from the toilet. We kept hearing scratching and weвЂ™d put the lid down. In March I gave Thames Water two weeks to sort it out. I flushed the toilet straight away and went back, leaving the light on. I jumped up and thought - this time IвЂ™m going to watch. The couple filmed the rat - which they have named Roland - poking its face up into the bowl, but investigators from Thames Water have done a search of the pipes at their home without success.ДЄt the time, Mrs Woods said: вЂI went to the loo and I could hear scratching. Margaret and Keith Woods,of Sutton, south London, began flushing their lavatory first and running the taps before going to the toilet, after the rodent apparently began swimming up the u-bend a few years ago. Something to think about, perhaps, next time youвЂ™re on the toilet.Д®xperts recommend squirting dishwasher liquid around the inside of the toilet bowl if you spot a ratДЄ couple admitted they are terrified of entering their bathroom after spotting a rat in the toilet. If it gets desperate, human faeces can contain undigested food that the rats can feast on in a process known as coprophagy.ДЄnd if someone flushes, the rats can easily swim back out into the drainage system.

While it may be hard to believe, a large amount of food is often flushed down a toilet.

At a turn, the rat finds a pocket of air, just enough to help it push on to the end of the line.вЂ™ДЄ sewer system can be food-heaven for rats. вЂThe underwater passage leaves no room for air. вЂNow it faces the biggest test, getting through the last few inches of the narrow toilet pipes. Its sharp claws allow the rat to scale almost any vertical surface, making going up the internal pipe system relatively straightforward. вЂResidential sewer pipes feed into the main tunnel and a rat might consider this path an irresistible opportunity for exploration.вЂ™ Its sharp claws allow the rat to scale almost any vertical surface, making going up the internal pipe system relatively straightforward

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