Strange: Beware of snakes in WC toilets
Beware of Snake in the Water Closet toilet and on the floor of the toilet especially those who have buildings close the bush area.
Most reptiles especially snake like to hide inside WC chambers to cool it’s body with the flushing water during hot weather.
Sometimes when snake in search of food, it may pursue Rats into the chamber at the back of your house or even Soak-away pit. The snake might stays there after swallowing the Rats and turn the place to abode.
It will later craws through the connecting PVC pipes into the WC for more adventures and food inside the house. Any object on the WC may look like food and could be a victim.
Most reptiles would find it difficult to jump or enter into the WC, they always find it easier to enter from the concrete chambers at the back of the house through which sewage pipes get connected and through cracks, under the doors and crevices.
It very important to take note of the following precautionary measure when using WC.
1. Always check any WC toilet thoroughly before you sit on it.
2. Avoid using toilet in the dark.
3. Public toilets are dangerous to use anyhow. If you must use them, don’t sit directly on them, lift up your buttock slightly above the bowl and be watchful.
You can sometimes pure small kerosene, diesel or a cup of salt into the WC and flush. It serves as a poison to reptiles even the odor alone will keep-off any reptiles for a long time.
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