Squirrel popped out of woman’s toilet

A Winnipeg woman got quite a scare early on Wednesday morning when she heard an animal thrashing about in her bathroom toilet. It turned out to be a cold, wet, filthy squirrel that was trying to get out at about 7am, said Angela Campbell. “At first I thought it was a rat, I was more in shock, I wasn’t necessarily afraid,” she said.



“It sounded like a giant fish in a bowl … The poor thing, I don’t know how it survived.” Campbell said she and her partner noticed their two dogs were “bothered by something” starting at about 5am, but it wasn’t until they heard the ruckus in the bathroom that they found out why.

She used barbecue tongs to get the squirrel out of the toilet and into the bathtub, then took it outside onto the deck, where she washed it with small buckets of water. “It did not make a fuss as it was too weak,” said Campbell, adding that another squirrel came up the deck stairs aggressively and then climbed up one of the home’s outdoor walls.



At this point, Campbell made her way back indoors, while the toilet squirrel made its way to a spot on the fence with sunlight. It looked like it was okay. Campbell said the city’s water and waste department is currently doing repair work on her street and believes the critter may have got in through a pipe. However, she said some of her co-workers have mentioned other possibilities, including that the squirrel got into the pipes from the vent stack in the roof.