When a Toronto man woke up Tuesday to answer nature's call, he didn't expect nature to answer back.

"Just as I was sitting down, with only the light of morning coming in the window, I realized there was a swimmer in the toilet," Beaches resident Michael Connor wrote on Facebook of the 6 a.m. ET encounter.

Connor chronicled how he removed the creature — which he thinks is a little brown bat often found in Toronto — out of the toilet.

"I have no idea how it's possible that he ended up swimming in my toilet," he wrote.

Connor gently lifted the bat out of the toilet and into a bucket before the bat began to make noise.

"It was quite heartbreaking," he wrote.

Connor escorted the bat in the bucket outside, sliding it onto a window screen in a shady corner.

"He pretty quickly oriented himself head down and was spreading his wings and vocalizing when I left him," he wrote.

Connor checked on the bat a few hours later and there was "no sign of my bat friend," he said.

"I don't have a sense of whether he was suicidal, delinquent or just having a really bad end of the night."