Rats are the kind of urban pests that can get anywhere. If you live in an urban area, you’ve seen them everywhere from trash cans, to subways, to restaurants, maybe even in your home.
Unfortunately, according to National Geographic, they can even get in your toilet.
Gross, right? Can you imagine opening your toilet and finding a rat in it? Nobody wants that to be possible!
But it is, and it’s happened more than once.
This report centered on Washington, D.C., whose rodent control department only gets a few complaints of rats in toilets per year. But still, a few per year is too many!
So how do they even get into your toilet? Wouldn’t they drown?
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Actually, it turns out that rats are excellent swimmers. They can navigate an entire sewage system, let alone a toilet, with no problem at all. They can tread water for up to three days!
Not only that, but their bodies are specially built to navigate through tight spaces. If their head can fit, then their body follows.
If you find a rat in your toilet, the best thing to do is to call pest control. In the meantime, check out this video from National Geographic about just how they get in there!
Ew! What do you think of these clever pests?
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