So it's 6 in the morning, i'm in bed. My wife gets up to get the kids ready for school, leaves our room, then comes back with a look of fright on her face and tells me she sees something over the door to our son's room. I ask if it's a waterbug or something and she's all like "no, it's way bigger than a waterbug and it's black!" I'm like "awww schitt, here we go." I get up and look at it and can't really tell what it is, but I tell my wife I think it's a bat. Her look of fright turns to complete horror. I tell her and the kids to stay in their rooms while I try to think what the hell to do. First thought was swat it with a broom, then I'm like naw, that's not gonna do it. So I go get my BAT (baseball bat i mean). But even that don't seem like the right move- what if I miss and it comes at me at such close quarters? I might get teh rabies or even worse i might get vampired the f**k up. So I told my wife to empty out a waste basket and cut up part of a cardboard box lid to use as a cover. I get close to the bat and i think he starts moving his head like he's looking at me. I'm like "ohh snap, he's about to fly at me!" Quickly I trap him against the wall with the waste basket and then slide the cardboard underneath, which knocks the bat off of the wall and into the waste basket (turns this was EXACTLY the right thing to do). I took it outside to the curb and take the lid off to get a good look- yep, it's a bat. Starts spreading it wings to try to fly away, but he's struggling. So I run back in the house to get a camera, but by the time I get back he's gone. Wow, what a morning!
Has anybody else here ever caught a bat or other wild animal in their house? My sister-in-law once saw a racoon walking around on the 3rd floor of their crib.. how 'bout that
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"There's a bat in my house! Batty! Batty! Batty!"
My mum wasnt really feeling it, and before she could say anything he pulls the monkey out the box, to show us. The monkey proceeds to get a whiff of freedom and breaks free and starts running sick around the house trying to escape, with 3 adults and 3 kids doing their best to catch him!
These muthafunkers can get to high places...so were trying to get him down with brooms and shit, he's pissing everywhere, our dog is going nuts.... total chaos for about an hour... till we stopped chasing him, made sure the windows where all shut and put some food out for him...soon he was all cool.
Became a great pet and very domesticate in a short period of time.
Sounds like you had a Fruit Bat.....used to see them all the time in Brooklyn.....would find them clinging on to screen doors or in the eaves of the house....pretty harmless....but I don't want them in my home.
yeah, i'm in the city... you actually see lots of wild animals in Philly that you might not think you'd see here. Possums and racoons getting into trash cans in the projects, big ass hawks, deer, all kinds o' schitt. A few months ago we had some birds stuck in the crawl space between the roof and 2nd floor ceiling... my wife saw them walking around on the skylight and said they looked like "colorful birds, blue-yellow-green-red colors". I don't know, my wife might have overdid the prescription meds that morning
peace, stein. . .
EXACTLY!!!!
im going to do the same shit soon. first i have to get shelves in my place, but gotta have the bats. much better than mosquitos. plus, if we forge a bond, i'm hoping that the creatures of the night will carry out my evil bidding once in a while. i'll send more bats to soulmans house to pull raer out the windows
and I always thought that bears shit in the wood!
I've had to remove bats a couple of times. It's not that unusual for them to turn up in the city. For houses a lot of times they'll get through holes in vent grating in the attic and make their perch up there, or migrate into the house from there.
I never really got people who bashed them with stuff (i.e. baseball bats
In my previous encounters I've scooped them up Phil-style with a piece of cardboard and a pot.
Phil you might want to investigate the outside of your house and see if you can spot where they entered (this may be tough from the ground). Best bet is that if you have an unfinished attic, go up there and check the vents/soffitts and generally around the edge where the roof meets the floor. As you know bats are small so it doesn't take a very large opening.
I bought one two years ago and made sure to situate it properly (very important), but nobody's moved in yet.
This lethal bat fungus is potentially a disaster, I hope it doesn't play out that way.
How high up did you mount yours? The info I read said if you don't get "tenants" to wait it out for two years.
yes... unless they have TEH RABIES. and they're wild animals... i can't have that in my house with my kids. believe me, i would've gotten no joy out of baseball batting that bat, but hey... if that's what i had to do his lil azz was gettin' ryan howarded. he did not have to go home but he had to leave here
i was kinda worried about that... from stuff i've read, though, the bat probably got in through some real tiny crack somewhere and the chances that his blind azz would find that crack aagain are slim. hope that's correct
It's in a dead tree, about 20 feet up, and gets 4-6 hours of early day light, and some late day light as well. It's in a patch of woods to the side of my yard, which is maybe 1/4 mile from the nearest pond.
I'm in the Northeast, so I'm assuming when they return in the spring is when I would get them. If not, I'll try a new spot next year.