I found a rat once in my in laws winter cottage in Florida. We went over to check the place, I had to use the toilet so I turned the water on and the rat came up out of the neck into the bowl and was swimming frantically. I almost had sat down . Shut the lid and called my husband who dispatched it.
When I was a kid growing up in Mississippi, I awoke one morning, went to the bathroom and there was a huge possum grinning at me in the tub.....................