‘He came in through the roof’: Family shock as squirrel gets stuck in toilet u-bend
A CHEEKY squirrel almost went round the U-bend when he went looking for a quick snack and fell down a toilet. The adventurous rodent got into a wee spot of bother as he tried to wriggle away only to find himself well and truly trapped by his bushy tail.
RSPCA officer Kirstie Gillard rescued a squirrel from a toilet
Mortified students alerted the RSPCA when they discovered the distressed animal’s head poking out from the toilet at their shared house in Southwark, south London, this week.
Animal collection officer Kirstie Gillard was left feeling flushed with success after attempting an unusual rescue strategy to pull the squirrel free.
As these pictures show, the RSPCA rescuer managed to tempt the squirrel to cling on to a mop handle so that he could be gently eased out of the toilet pan.
ACO Gillard said: “I think he must have come into this house through the roof and slipped into the toilet.
It was certainly one of the most unusual rescues I’ve ever carried out
“Fortunately the squirrel wasn’t injured and I could release him back into the wild where he belongs.
“It was certainly one of the most unusual rescues I’ve ever carried out.
"I did rescue a bat stuck in the plughole of a sink last year but I think this one takes the crown. I’m sure it’s one the squirrel ‘walnut’ forget in a hurry.”
The RSPCA say the tale of the squirrel stuck in the toilet will go into the annals of its recent bizarre animal rescues, which include:
The squirrel clings to the mop to get out of the toilet
Squirrel was rescued from the toilet and was uninjured
• A gull that fell into a vat of cold tandoori curry in in Newport, south Wales, which turned the bird bright orange
• A ewe in Hertfordshire left feeling sheepish after getting a traffic cone stuck on its head
• Cagney the Lhasa Apso who had to be rescued after getting stuck in an electric reclining chair at a house in Salford
• A corn snake which had to retrieved after wriggling into a vacuum cleaner in York
The RSPCA says anyone concerned about an animal can ring its 24-hour emergency cruelty line on 0300 123 4999.