How did a large snail get into the toilet bowl?

Yes in some camp sites they tell you to leave the toilet lid down to deter snakes. Walkerville in Victoria is one but it is fairly remote. Not a nice thought! I have heard of frogs getting in,too. We have a problem with snails getting into the mailbox ( they are at the end of the garden here) and chewing corners off the envelopes. We put elastic bands into the mailbox and that worked for a while but blow me if they haven’t started coming in again.

rubysong

Callistemon please tell me it wasn't in the UK. Otherwise I shall be traumatised each time I go in the bathroom.

No, rubysong, it was in outback Australia!
Home of snakes, crocs, spiders, cane toads, vicious ants .....

Thank you ElderlyPerson ?

NanKate

The other morning I woke up and was about to creep downstairs to get a cuppa and not disturb DH. Then I noticed something large and long climbing up the bedroom wall. It was a slimy slug. I gently picked it off the wall in a tissue and took it downstairs opened a window and put it on a leaf. I must admit it left a horrid green slime from its body on the tissue. ?

Good for you.

You respected its life.

Well done.

Do you have grandsons staying for a few days!, just the tricks my sons used to play.

Slugs are disgusting! They can get in anywhere because they have no bones to worry about -a bit like octopuses (octopi?) who can squeeze through amazingly small holes. I lived in an elderly ex-council house, and despite having various wooden downstairs floorboards replaced, I would still occasionally find a large slug on the living room carpet, if I had reason to come downstairs in the night. I now live in a relatively modern town house with slug-proof concrete floors -thank God!

Callistemon please tell me it wasn't in the UK. Otherwise I shall be traumatised each time I go in the bathroom.

That’s nothing!
I went to the loo yesterday and when I pulled down my pants a slug fell out!
Cue very hot shower.
I’d been sitting on the paving weeding garden so I think it crawled in then.
Otherwise……

Infinity2

Callistemon - what kind of snake was it and what did you do with it ?

I can't remember, but it was a poisonous one and I kept away - SIL dealt with it!

The other morning I woke up and was about to creep downstairs to get a cuppa and not disturb DH. Then I noticed something large and long climbing up the bedroom wall. It was a slimy slug. I gently picked it off the wall in a tissue and took it downstairs opened a window and put it on a leaf. I must admit it left a horrid green slime from its body on the tissue. ?

I once put some snails I had collected in a bucket of water, expecting them to drown. But I later found them crawling up and out, I don't know if they can actually swim, but they evidently can survive in water.

Callistemon - what kind of snake was it and what did you do with it ?

I quite like snails. I know they`re a slug with a shell, and I hate slugs, but find snails pretty. Better that than an alligator, as has happened a few times in Florida.

Aldom

A relative of mine went to use a public loo when in NSW Australia. Looking up at her from the toilet bowl was a frog.

Oh yes, I've seen a couple of those too, quite sweet unless you're nervous and desperate to use the loo.

As long as it wasn't a cane toad, Aldom

A relative of mine went to use a public loo when in NSW Australia. Looking up at her from the toilet bowl was a frog.

I posted this on another thread:

A few years ago we wondered why the toilet wouldn't flush properly, then found a snake in the cistern.

I remember an old puzzle about a snail.

The snail is at the base of a ten foot high wall.

Each day the snail climbs two feet up the wall.

Each night the snail slides back one foot. down the wall.

How long does it take the snail to reach the top of the wall?

25Avalon

Snail Joke-

A man is at home when he hears a knock on the door. He opens it and sees a snail in the porch. He picks the snail up and throws it as far as he can. A few years later there’s a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says “What the heck was that all about?”

superb

Snail Joke-

A man is at home when he hears a knock on the door. He opens it and sees a snail in the porch. He picks the snail up and throws it as far as he can. A few years later there’s a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says “What the heck was that all about?”

I bet ‘he’s’ livid. It probably took him a few weeks to get there!

I posted about this before once. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it waggling it's horns at me from the toilet bowl. We live in a 4th floor flat. It was during another of these hot dry spells too.

Blossoming - yes I thought that.
Did it fall and was it pushed ?

Yes, sounds like it climbed up.

The toilet discharges into the same drain as the down pipe from the gutter so is open. It must have climbed up there. We rarely use that toilet as we mostly use the en-suite in the master bedroom. It is a bungalow so I suppose not too far to climb. Never heard of this before.

I thought of several humorous replies, but not really very helpful! Was the toilet seat up or down? Is it an upstairs toilet?