Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
What exactly happened?

I consider myself clean enough, but I'm definitely not a germaphobe. I don't open public bathroom doors with paper towels, and I don't believe in anti-bacterial this and that unless I'm in a hospital. I do believe in the hygiene hypothesis that we are too clean for the most part and our immune systems have suffered.
We cannot say exactly what happened because it was rats doing rat things in the darkness of the basement. But there is evidence that a Rat came up through the toilet in his basement —twice.

We do have rats in our neighborhood. I believe I saw one in my friend’s House two years ago when she had a mice infestation. yeah she had mice, but this thing was a rat.

When the Victorian warehouse down the street caught on fire, rats came running out of it.

Before that it was decades ago but I saw a rat sunning himself on our patio in the middle of summer. DH says I didn’t see that but I know what I saw. Perhaps it was a Sick rat.