Bat!!!!!

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NickS

Discussion Starter · Nov 10, 2010 (Edited by Moderator)

I live in an apartment and I came out of my spare bedroom to see a freakin bat flying around my kitchen and living room. I quietly panicked like a little girl and dove back into the bedroom (my wife is asleep in the master bedroom). I found something to swat it down with but every time it got near I widdled my panties. I heard it land somewhere and I slowly started poking around all the nooks and crannies of these rooms.

Nothing, I can find NOTHING!

I looked everywhere. I'm hoping it went back from whence it came.

My wife is always the first up and she'll be up for hours before I get up. She may run into this thing in the morning.

The question now is...

A) Should I tell my wife there was an emasculating sonic bug catcher flying around our apartment?

B) Don't tell her and just tell the apartment management?

C) Put my head between my knees and rock back and forth hoping it never comes back?

D) Buy garlic?

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TeamTeal

· #2 · Nov 10, 2010

hehe, option E run and hide ?

Cuchulainn

· #3 · Nov 10, 2010

LOL-nice way to end the day!

Why don't U catch it?
oops, didnt notice U can't find it....make it a snack and wait in the shadows

legomaniac89

· #4 · Nov 10, 2010

I had one in my house a couple months ago. It took some doing, but I finally caught him in a container and let him go outside. All the while, my mom was having a total panic attack...

NickS

Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 10, 2010

It's crazy. I'm so paranoid now. I can't sit still without flinching or thinking something is crawling up behind me.

I think I know how it got in. I'm going to have the management block it up. Can't have that happen again. No way.

Darkblade48

· #6 · Nov 10, 2010

B and C sound like good choices. Be careful, bats can also carry rabies.

NickS

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 10, 2010

Yeah, I think I'm not going to tell her and get the management to handle it.

glassbird

· #8 · Nov 10, 2010

The bat wants to be inside your house even less than you want him to be there. Open every window in those rooms, close any doors, and leave him alone. He will leave as soon as he has a chance to calm down, and get his bearings. But, yes, do get someone to block up any holes that he might have come in through. Less stress for you, the bats, and your wife!

Bats are really remarkable creatures. Yes, they can carry rabies (but so can any mammal), and yes, their droppings can carry diseases (but so does the droppings of any mammal). However, they eat vast quantities of mosquitoes, and other bugs, so they are a bonus in my book!

Noahma

· #9 · Nov 10, 2010

Darkblade48 said:
B and C sound like good choices. Be careful, bats can also carry rabies.

1/10 of 1% of wild bats have rabies. No problems there, I think they are pretty cute. I don't think it will bother you, it is probably scared hiding in a corner from you.

mistergreen

· #10 · Nov 10, 2010

Bats and birds are easy to catch... Get a big towel, a beach towel would be perfect. Spread it out, pretend you're a wall. Corner the creature and throw the towel over it. Grab the towel with the animal inside of course, and throw it outside.

Please don't swat it. It's more scared than you.

NickS

Discussion Starter · #11 · Nov 10, 2010

All of our windows have screens so I wish I could have done that. We actually have baseboard heaters and where they enter the apartment there is a hole in the wall. Really poor craftsmanship if you ask me... I'm pretty sure that's where he came in. We've had other creatures come in through there but nothing as dramatic.

The only other possibilities are through the bottom of the apartment door from the hallway or through the window air conditioner that's installed in the wall under our living room window.

Either way they need to block off the hole where the pipes for the baseboard heater come in.

jreich

· #12 · Nov 10, 2010

mistergreen said:
Bats and birds are easy to catch... Get a big towel, a beach towel would be perfect. Spread it out, pretend you're a wall. Corner the creature and throw the towel over it. Grab the towel with the animal inside of course, and throw it outside.

Please don't swat it. It's more scared than you.

hey you stole this idea from Tommy Boy! My best friend had a bat in his house on 2 seperate occasions. first time we caught the bat Tommy Boy style, second time my brother caught it with a trash can and a broom.

Sharkfood

· #13 · Nov 10, 2010

I'd fill that hole with expanding foam if it's somewhere inconspicuous.

monkeyfish

· #14 · Nov 10, 2010

Living in the woods we've had quite a few bats in the house over the years. As weird as it sounds, they are drawn to lights. You can leave a light on in one room, with the windows open and they'll find their way out, never fails. We leave the outside lights on and shut everything else off.

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[email protected]

· #15 · Nov 11, 2010

If there is any possibility that you or your wife got bitten, any possibility at all, get to your physician or health department ASAP. If the bat was in a room where someone was sleeping, get to your physician or health department TODAY.
Let them decide if you were exposed or at risk.
In Michigan, bats are the leading source of rabies exposure.

http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases/0,1607,7-186-25807-229730--,00.html

While the risk in the US is very low, world wide, approximately 30,000 people die each year from rabies. You can write the names of everyone known to have survived rabies, on the fingers of one hand and have spare fingers. Prophylaxis works.

And, yes, I do happen to know what a course of rabies vaccination is like.
Been there, done that.

kevmo911

· #16 · Nov 11, 2010

Chimney? And either way, remember that they're nocturnal. So don't sweat it till the sun goes down.

NickS

Discussion Starter · #17 · Nov 11, 2010

[email protected] said:
If there is any possibility that you or your wife got bitten, any possibility at all, get to your physician or health department ASAP. If the bat was in a room where someone was sleeping, get to your physician or health department TODAY.
Let them decide if you were exposed or at risk.
In Michigan, bats are the leading source of rabies exposure.

http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases/0,1607,7-186-25807-229730--,00.html

While the risk in the US is very low, world wide, approximately 30,000 people die each year from rabies. You can write the names of everyone known to have survived rabies, on the fingers of one hand and have spare fingers. Prophylaxis works.

And, yes, I do happen to know what a course of rabies vaccination is like.
Been there, done that.

No bites here. Just wracked nerves. Thanks

NickS

Discussion Starter · #18 · Nov 11, 2010

kevmo911 said:
Chimney? And either way, remember that they're nocturnal. So don't sweat it till the sun goes down.

No chimney in my apartment dude.

What sun? It's winter.

chad320

· #19 · Nov 11, 2010

Nothing really to be afriad of. I caught one with a fishnet and put it in a gallon pickle jar for my 4,5,9 year old girls to enjoy for a little while. Believe it or not they loved it! So dont dribble your britches, use your stuff!

Capsaicin_MFK

· #20 · Nov 11, 2010

After hours of trying to catch one in my old house it finally met it's end with an Andre Agassi worthy serve into the kitchen cabinet. Wasn't my intention to kill it but with two girls screaming "KILL IT! KILL IT!" I really had no other choice...:icon_roll

Oh and the movie is Black Sheep, not Tommy Boy. He was in the mountain cabin near Gary Busey--->:biggrin: (yeah teeth like that)

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