# How did a squirrel wind up in my toilet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677 "2010-04-10T23:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/21 "2010-04-11T05:25:06Z")
> [@La\_Beldame](#): > > Although I think of them as rats with good PR agents… We call 'em Bush-tailed Tree-rat… ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/22 "2010-04-11T15:09:45Z")
Never had a squirrel, but I have found frogs in my toilet on a couple of occasions. Like has been pointed out, they enter through the roof vent pipe. They were still alive; I just catch them and put them outside, after failing to be able to just flush them back out. I have heard stories that rats commonly enter houses this way, but have not actually had that happen to anyone I know. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/23 "2010-04-11T18:26:14Z")
[The Master Speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/29/can-rats-swim-up-through-the-urk-toilet): How rats can get into toilets. > [@Polycarp](#): > > It’s Schrödinger’s Squirrel. > > At all times and places, there is an infinitesimally small but non-zero chance that a macroscopic object such as a squirrel will coalesce out of zero-point ener[g]y. You drew the short straw. I think that’s actually a Planck Squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/24 "2010-04-11T22:28:20Z")
You know, I’m willing to bet the squirrel was asking himself the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/25 "2010-04-11T22:31:48Z")
What do you people eat?! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/26 "2010-04-12T00:08:03Z")
I once had a squirrel turn up in a closed-windowed, closed-door bathroom. I believe this thread may have solved my decade-old mystery. He was alive and running about the room, though; I wonder if he could have survived that vertical waterslide and subsequent ascent to ‘fresh’ air? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/27 "2010-04-12T09:14:43Z")
Maybe he was trying to eat your husband’s nuts and just suffered some shitty luck. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677/28 "2010-04-14T14:28:21Z")
Here is a current story that is about a dryer roof vent and a duck. [St. Petersburg firefighters free stuck duck from dryer vent](http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/fire/st-petersburg-firefighters-free-stuck-duck-from-dryer-vent/1087049) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-a-squirrel-wind-up-in-my-toilet/535677.md?page=1)