Public Health: What to do if a rat comes up your toilet

Illustration by Meredith Li-Vollmer

Yes. It happens. It happened to a friend of mine, many years ago in a Northgate neighborhood.

Rats can swim three miles underwater and sewer pipes in the SPU district are old.

Public Health just published an illustrated article about how to handle the situation, which basically says to close the lid and flush.

Here's the article - hope you don't need it!

--Diane Hettrick