Cats-v-Bats

[Donnaj4962]

Oh my! I am so sorry that you (or rather your furbabies) found a bat in the house! Several years ago, when I was married, we had a COLONY living in our attic! And it was not uncommon for us to have several bats flying through the house at any one time! At the time, I only had Tabitha, and she would just watch them fly by! WOOOOOHOOOOO... free entertainment!

She must have had fun with one one day because when I came home from work, I went into the bathroom, had the door half closed, had my pants around my feet and was half-seated when I saw the bat, just hanging out on the floor and Tabitha keeping a very close eye on it! Fortunately, my (now-ex-) husband walked into the house at that time and was able to get the bat outside! I can only wonder how long that bat and Tabitha played that day! Of course, I had her to the vet and she was fine! No bite marks and no other side effects!

I did extensive research on bats after that adventure, and found that bats can get into any space the size of a dime. They can constrict their bodies and are basically a mouse with wings! They don't typically get into houses, and we had so many bats because we had a whole colony living in our attic. Our house was balloon construction, which means that when you were in the basement, you could look up the walls and see all the way to the roof. Our basement and first floor was not able to be secured by a door, so we put up a blanket trying to keep the bats in the basement. DIDN'T WORK!

One night, I stood in the kitchen, making lasagna, and looked beside me and there was a bat! Just flapping his wings like he was asking what was for dinner!!!! I immediately ran out of the house! Yep, I was asceered of them and was known to lay in bed with the blankets pulled over my head while my (now-ex-) husband chased them down with a tennis racket.

I know, bats are good for the insect population.... etc. But when they are in the house, and there are as many as we had.... well, they were going to be stunned and put outside for nature to take care of them!

By the way, I let him have the house in the divorce.... I wasn't going to do battle over the bats! Let him have them. And as I understand it, 5 years later, he still is battling them!

[moosmom]

If you don't live with cats you need to understand that when you go to bed it's a free for all competition to see who can get the most fur up your nose and win the fight for the prized position of laying on the sleepers chest.)

Ain't THAT the truth!!!! (Sorry Catnapper )