Citing another animated film that stars a rodent, a second offered, “Sir…. that’s a rat’s tail. Not the Ratatouille cute Remy rat. That’s a NYC kinda rat that will fight you over dinner.”
“Lick it. If it looks like a rat, tastes like a rat…” suggests another. Responding to that message, one Redditor says, “Poke it with a stick and lick the stick instead.”
Not all people were convinced it was a rat.
“Opossum, or an armadillo,” writes another, or “a giant wall lizard.”
Push, pull or tickle
Other users offered more absurd guesses and solutions to discovering its identity.
“Just a shadow. Nothing to be alarmed by,” writes one, while another told OP to “Just push it up and forget about it.”
A third shares, “Have you tried tickling it. Maybe it’ll pull it back up and out of sight out of mind.
Some recommended the poster “should definitely pull it.”
“How could you not pull it?” one netizen asked, prompting the OP to answer, “It’s got those [little] hairs sticking out of it, no way I’m touching it with my bare hands.”
‘Burn the house down’
Others were, understandably, deeply disturbed. “I would simply burn the house down,” one user quipped – a sentiment echoed by more than a few.
“Hopefully you can now move out, list [and] sell the house before that stank arrives in force,” another said about the object potentially belonging to a dead rat, stuck in the ceiling.
However it wasn’t stuck – it started to “wiggle and move.” Shortly after, OP wrote: “It’s gone now.”
OP, are you not freaking out?! I have the heebie jeebies for you,” adds one netizen of the unidentified tenant.
Another Reddit user warned, “It’s just out of sight, it’s definitely not gone.”
Mystery solved
Within 24 hours, the author shared an update, letting fellow Redditors know that by process of elimination, the tail-like object did not belong to a lizard, a possum, or an armadillo – nor was it a “tampon pull string.”
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