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ALT A comic book made up of several panels entitled: What to do If There’s a Rat in your Toilet. Panel 1 - A woman seeing a rat in her toilet and looking afraid, text: First, try to stay calm. Panel 2 - the woman closes the lid to the toilet, text: Put down the lid and flush. If that doesn’t work, hurry to the kitchen—and shut the bathroom door! Panel 3 - A drawing of a bottle of dish soap, text: Get a bottle of dish soap. This is your new best friend. Panel 4 - Drawing of the woman putting a squirt of dish soap in the toilet, text: Crack the lid and squirt the soap into the toilet. Panel 5 - drawing of the rat inside the toilet bowl water trying to swim, text: The soap makes the rat slide down when you flush. It may take many flushes. Panel 6 - Drawing of cheese in a rat trap, text: A larger rat may not flush back down. If this happens, keep the lid closed and call a pest control company. If it escapes, close the door and set a trap.

ALT A comic book made up of several panels entitled: Why Rats Come Up In Your Toilet. Panel 1 - drawing of a rat inside a drain thinking about a hamburger, text: #1 They smell food or grease. Keep your drains clean. Panel 2 - #2 Old sewers and plumbing make it easier for them to get it. Panel 3 - drawing of a rat swimming in high water flowing into a sewer pipe, text: #3 Flooding or high water in the sewer systems after heavy rain. Panel 4 - drawing of a worker type man looking at pipes, text: If you are having problems with rats, call Multnomah County Vector Control at (503) 988-3463, or go to the multco.us/info/rats for a free property assessment. Small print: comic art by Meredith Li-Vollmer used with permission by Seattle & King County Public Health. Interpreter services available by stating language when connected.