# Bat toilet emergency **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528 "2003-08-12T00:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tallayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tallayan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tallayan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/1 "2003-08-12T00:23:08Z")
Errr, theres a dead bat in my toilet, anyone know the proper way to remove it, i’ll explain later ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/2 "2003-08-12T00:26:32Z")
Get a sieve or collander from the kitchen. Scoop it out. Soak the collander or sieve in a solution of 90% water, 10% chlorine bleach for 10 minutes. This will sterilize it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/3 "2003-08-12T00:30:34Z")
Darn, I was hoping this thread was about the Caped Crusader’s plumbing problems… ---
**Author:** ![Tallayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tallayan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tallayan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/4 "2003-08-12T00:30:57Z")
Change of plans, the bat’s alive, ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/5 "2003-08-12T00:31:45Z")
Holy effluent-soaked mammal! ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/6 "2003-08-12T00:34:44Z")
Ewww! You want her to scoop a **bat** out of the **toilet** and then wash the sieve so she can re-use it! Ewwwww! Throw it away, throw it all away!\* Don’t ya just know that I will be thinking about that bat when I rouse from a sleepy slumber at 3am, and stumble my way to the bathroom. \*I wouldn’t actually throw away the sieve, especially if it was one of my favorites. But I would put it way in the back so I wouldn’t use it for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Cillasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Cillasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cillasi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/7 "2003-08-12T00:36:01Z")
If it’s alive, call the local animal control. Don’t touch it. Bats can carry rabies. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/8 "2003-08-12T00:39:34Z")
Think “The Great Outdoors” with John Candy. Make sure to put a wicker wastebasket on your head before advancing on the bat. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/9 "2003-08-12T00:40:34Z")
OK– Open the bathroom window, & close the bathroom (batroom?) door. Bat go bye-bye. ---
**Author:** ![Tallayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tallayan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tallayan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/10 "2003-08-12T00:43:27Z")
Can’t just open, he’s stuck in the toilet, way to wet and tired to fly. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/11 "2003-08-12T00:47:30Z")
Place an old towel half in and half out of the toilet, so he can climb out. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/12 "2003-08-12T00:55:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*OK– > > Open the bathroom window, & close the bathroom (batroom?) door. > > Bat go bye-bye. \*\* Or else another bat will fly _in_, which is what happened when my parents tried to shoo one out of their bedroom window. You gotta be careful with those things. Waiting eagerly for the OP’s explanation of how this situation came about… ---
**Author:** ![Tallayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tallayan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tallayan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/13 "2003-08-12T01:06:04Z")
O.K ended up taking the wimps way out and calling the neighbor for help. used a towell and gloves to get it out and set it out in the lawn. It seemed to dry off and crawled into some ivy and hopefully will fly off before encountering cats. As to how it happened. My mom took went away for the weekend and came back to find a bat in the toilet, she must have left the seat open. Don’t know how long it was in there but seemed to be doing O.K ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/14 "2003-08-12T01:37:57Z")
Obviously a female bat manufacturing yet another reason why we have to leave the seat up. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/15 "2003-08-12T01:40:40Z")
**DOWN!** I meant _down!_ Obviously yet another example of female bat mind control designed to make me look foolish–oh, skip it. ---
**Author:** ![jsleek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jsleek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsleek)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/16 "2003-08-12T02:14:14Z")
I’m reasonably sure that any bat that gets in such difficulty is a sick bat. Just thinking about rabies makes me twitchy. Those diseases with fatality rates of 100% are so unappealing. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/17 "2003-08-12T03:36:55Z")
I would pay good money to see a band called “Bat Toilet Emergency”. ---
**Author:** ![BrianS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@BrianS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianS)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/18 "2003-08-12T04:56:51Z")
1.) Point muzzle of shoutgun at bat. 2.) Pull trigger 3.) Buy new toilet and replace the bathroom tile. Hey, you never liked it that much anyway, did you? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/19 "2003-08-12T05:40:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Get a sieve or collander from the kitchen. > > Scoop it out. > > Soak the collander or sieve in a solution of 90% water, 10% chlorine bleach for 10 minutes. This will sterilize it. \*\* Surely **Tallayan** ’s kitchenware isn’t _that_ dirty? I don’t think the bat will mind if the collander isn’t perfectly clean. Pardon? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/20 "2003-08-12T11:31:05Z")
Bats are small animals. Bats are not endangered animals. Flush it and forget about it [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528.md?page=2)