Eek. We had one fall down our chimney once and just hang on the inside of the screen. The city came and got it but never let us know anything more.
I think your cats would have almost definitely been having fits if the bat was in the house for ery long. When we had a bat get trapped in our house, our first priority was getting it out before it could become a kitty toy. They were determined to get that bat at any cost.
You got it out. I would have sold the house, contents intact.
Count me in among those who like bats. I think they’re adorable.
I was working in a retail store in an old building a few years ago when I walked in one morning to find my manager cowering and whimpering in a far corner. When I asked her what was wrong, she could only whimper and point a shaking finger at one of the mannequins in the front window. Hanging on said mannequin was a tiny bat, sleeping peacefully and of course blissfully unaware of the terror he was causing.
I had to catch several bats in that store and deposit them in a safe place outside. Wouldn’t you know it, a few weeks after the above incident, I walked into the store and my manager called out, “the store across the street has a bat. They’re freaking out, and they heard you catch bats.” Apparently I was the neighborhood bat-girl.
Did they shine the signal for you and everything?
Few points:
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Bats are cool, although rather unnerving with their skin wings.
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My dogs while in a belly full, deep slumber know the very second a cat paw touches our property. These same dogs can be standing immediately over a black snake as it is slithering past their noses and get all Sargent Shultz, “I see nothing! I SEE NOTHING!” You could not pay my dogs enough money to see a snake.
Never underestimate your pets abilties to create their own worlds. I bet the cats were like “FUCK, mom saw that creepy thing, now WE have to see it.”
So you know it’s time to eat when you hear …
dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner … BatGirl!
I had a bat in the house two months ago too. “Wait a minit… now that’s a VERY big moth” I thought. I saw the poor beastie flying in circles, so I opened the windows and doors into the balcony and let it find its way out. That took him about ten minutes.
The cats were fascinated, but kept a distance.
Bats is cute and cool.
We had a lighted tennis court by my old house. In the spring/summer if you hit a lob to high it was common to have a bat dive down and attack the ball. A little scary at first, but after a few times we would throw the balls up just to tease them.
Dude, that’s just askin’ for guano.
Heh, I’m now Mouse-Girl at work. We’ve had a slight vermin problem and set out a bunch of traps. The women I work with are a bunch of prissy girly-girls who scream and cry at the sight of a dead mouse caught in a trap, so now I’m the one who has to go pick it up and deposit it in the trash.
oh my OG that is the funniest thing i think i’ve ever read on this board!! there are tears streaming down my face! my co-workers came running because it sounded like i was choking to death!
LoadedDog you will go to heaven for making me laugh that hard. you must. i decree it.
I’ve had gray hair since I was 17:). I help keep Clairol in business.
My girl cat was the only one who spotted the bat - I saw her sneaking across the floor towards it right when I realized it was in the house. She’s our better mouser, too, though - odd, since she’s the skittish kitty and my boy is the outgoing cat - but he can’t catch a mouse to save his life, whereas I’ve seen her get one in about three seconds.
I talked to ElzaHub a few minutes ago - he did talk to the ped about an hour ago. She said that she typically defers to the health department and if they don’t think he needs the shots, then we’ll go with their decision. The guy at the HD is supposed to call me back to do a followup, so I’ll confirm it with him, but as of now, neither of them think he needs the shots. I honestly think it got in last night when the back door was open - we have sort of an overhang over our back deck that seems like a prime hiding spot, and it probably swooped in while I was getting his diaper bag and carseat inside. I can’t imagine that it would have been in the house for longer than that without the cats going nuts.
And the pediatrician did say that as parents, it’s our job to overreact:). So I feel better about calling her.
E.
I will agree with you that bats don’t belong inside. I don’t know that I could Have caught it and tossed it outside…I probably would have opened the windows and hoped it would leave on its own. Things that are bigger than bugs and can fly are creepy as hell. Birds too. Don’t know why anyone would ever keep those demon spawn as pets. ::shudder::
I rescued a bat that landed on one of the lanes in our local bowling center one time. And a small snake another time. It cracks me up when girly-girls freak out about a little animal.
But giant flying cockroaches, though… that’s different. I will scream and run. Which of course, makes them target me and my hair. :eek: