How Often Do Snakes, Rats, and Spiders Really Crawl Up Your Toilet Pipes? (And How to Stop Them)

Its not logical, but a beast slithering out of the sewer while you do your business is justwrong.

Can snakes crawl from your toilet?

The sewer is not a good snake environmentits cold down there, and snakes like things warm.

There are also rats: the animal kingdoms champion of swimming up plumbing into toilets.

Rats can tread water for three days.

There are also spiders.

Spider-infestations are a much bigger problem for people who use outhouses.

That includes the deadly black widow, so be aware if youre sharecropper in Louisiana in 1867 or something.

I would rather find a snake in my toilet than a possumpossums are the worst animals.

I know theyre not harmful, but theyre just so ugly and gross.

Baby possums arentthatbad, but still: Possums, just stay away from me.

Did you get lost?

And gently scoop them up and place them outside.

Frogs often get into your houses pipes from the sewer system or through vent pipes attached to your roof.

They hop in and cant get out, then survive a harrowing adventure that ends at your toilet.

Show a little compassion; froggy has had a hard day.

Sewers are not a good environment for gators.

(Putting the lid down probably wont stop smaller snakes from escaping through the gap in your toilet lid.

Now that youve trapped the animal, call animal control.

Some people recommend pouring bleach into the bowl to kill lost rats.

These one-way flaps allow waste water out, but prevent vermin from getting in.

That would include snakes, rats, and really anything else you could think of.

You should also keep things clean, particularly for spiders.