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A quick bathroom break for Alison Doyle became a medical emergency

She documented the experience on TikTok, prompting viral concern from viewers

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When Alison Doyle flushed her downstairs toilet one afternoon, she expected the usual swirl of water — not the lifeless body of a tiny bat. The discovery would send her from a quiet laundry day to a Canadian emergency room, and eventually into the center of a viral TikTok moment.

“I went downstairs to do laundry after literally a month of living in this new place,” Alison tells PEOPLE. “I looked down and it was a baby bat, it was deceased.”

Doyle says she rarely uses that bathroom and wasn’t sure how long the animal had been there. St

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