Holy shit!

A rat just came up through the upstairs toilet.

I went upstairs to eat my breakfast (my usual morning routine) and it smelled like rat piss. I was worried that there was a rat hiding somewhere pissing up the place, so I followed my nose, so to speak. I found my way to the little half bathroom we have up here...lifted the toilet lid to find that it was empty. This toilet slowly drains and we don't really use it (sometimes I do if I don't feel like going downstairs to piss, but it's just a small toilet and it's awkward to sit on, so deuce is out of the question. There was no water in it and the smell seemed to be coming from there so I thought maybe it was just the post-toilet pipes stinking up the place...so I flushed the toilet. As it was filling up, a rat came right up through the drain.

I closed the lid and tried to find something to pick it up with and at least get it out of the house (I didn't want to smash it in the toilet or anything dramatic like that). I got a box and some packing material my monitor came in to wrap around my hand to try to usher it into the box...however, when I opened the lid, it fucking dove down the hole. I waited for a bit and just decided to flush it. I flushed twice...closed the lid. It's been about 15 minutes...I don't think they can hold their breath for that long.

What the fuck.

I hope it didn't die. I feel bad killing stuff like that. I feel more like, "You don't have to die, you just can't live here." However, I didn't have the time to sit around waiting for it to come back up (if it would....) Not only that, but I don't wan to potentially get sick if it bit me.