IluvABbeef
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Story from this morning:
Guess what I had waking me up this morning?
A bat!!
Yeah you heard right, a Little Brown Bat somehow found its way into the house and the cats were chasing it; what woke me up was the sudden site of it flapping over my head. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :shock: :shock:
I was almost going to hide under the covers until Mom came up to say goodbye as she was going off to work, but since it was quarter to six in the morning, I decided to cautiously get out of bed to not disturb the little bat that was now resting on the ceiling near my bedroom, and get Mom to help me get the little bugger out.
Mom was surprised, to say the least. So the both of us, still donned in our nighties, locked the cats in the basement, crept upstairs, mom with a pair of work gloves on and a pail to try to catch it in, and opened up all the windows WIDE open and took off the screens.
By then it suddenly occured to me that that little bat actually looked kinda cute. ;-)
Anyway, as mom was slowly putting the pail up to the ceiling to catch the bat, it saw us and flew out of "harm's" way, heading for the other bedroom opposite mine. "Oh crap," I thought. I started to shut the door to let the bat find it's way out of the open window, but mom suggested we both go in and shoo the bat out of the window...."helping" it as she called it.
You gotta have nerves of steel if you have a bat flying and zooming around a little room right over your head, to be honest. A person who hates birds would be freaking out right about now. Seriously, we could feel air from the bat's wings as it zoomed and darted and flapped around the little bedroom. I grabbed a towl to sort of "herd" it towards the window, and moreso to keep it from coming over my head so much. Finally, after a dozen circuits around the room, the bat found the open window and flew out into the dawn.
I don't think we'll ever know how that little thing got in.
Anybody else have ever had bats or a bat in the house before?
Guess what I had waking me up this morning?
A bat!!
Yeah you heard right, a Little Brown Bat somehow found its way into the house and the cats were chasing it; what woke me up was the sudden site of it flapping over my head. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :shock: :shock:
I was almost going to hide under the covers until Mom came up to say goodbye as she was going off to work, but since it was quarter to six in the morning, I decided to cautiously get out of bed to not disturb the little bat that was now resting on the ceiling near my bedroom, and get Mom to help me get the little bugger out.
Mom was surprised, to say the least. So the both of us, still donned in our nighties, locked the cats in the basement, crept upstairs, mom with a pair of work gloves on and a pail to try to catch it in, and opened up all the windows WIDE open and took off the screens.
By then it suddenly occured to me that that little bat actually looked kinda cute. ;-)
Anyway, as mom was slowly putting the pail up to the ceiling to catch the bat, it saw us and flew out of "harm's" way, heading for the other bedroom opposite mine. "Oh crap," I thought. I started to shut the door to let the bat find it's way out of the open window, but mom suggested we both go in and shoo the bat out of the window...."helping" it as she called it.
You gotta have nerves of steel if you have a bat flying and zooming around a little room right over your head, to be honest. A person who hates birds would be freaking out right about now. Seriously, we could feel air from the bat's wings as it zoomed and darted and flapped around the little bedroom. I grabbed a towl to sort of "herd" it towards the window, and moreso to keep it from coming over my head so much. Finally, after a dozen circuits around the room, the bat found the open window and flew out into the dawn.
I don't think we'll ever know how that little thing got in.
Anybody else have ever had bats or a bat in the house before?