Go here to read a story on how to escort a bat from your home. Many years ago I awoke to hearing strange swooping noises in my bedroom. I turned on the light and saw a small bat circling the room to get out. I had my Bride open the window, but the bat didn’t take the clue to fly out. I fetched a towel. I flicked the towel at the smallish bat, cast it over the bat after it fell stunned to our bed, and threw the bat and towel out the window, which then was quickly shut by my Bride. I did not want to touch the bat unshielded, fearful of the rabies that bats can carry. Next day I retrieved the towel from my front yard. No sign of the bat which I assume recovered, flew off and went about its bat business.
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Oh my goodness that was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you!
The lady behind the door….priceless…took them a while there – they obviously didn’t use your method Don.
Bats, with their pin prick bite are the number one cause of fatal rabies transmission. If you find a small child in a room with a bat.
1. You assume the bat has rabies.
2. You assume the child was bitten.
3. Get treatment.
You get them routinely where we used to live. Haven’t seen one in 10 years and am a happy guy for ‘a that. Had a course of the shots once. We had a very athletic cat who could pick the right moment to jump and catch them, but her successors would just watch while they flew around the room. Of course, we had a net and a broom handy.
I love bats! Our cat use to catch the ones that came inside– but she’d just pin them to the floor.
They kept flying out as soon as I snagged the cat off of them…..
We had a bat a few days ago, and it was a safari. We don’t have downstairs doors so all rooms are opened. We a have a big net that I gave to my wife (wheelchaired) and I tried to direct the bat with a towel toward the wheel chair and opened doors …it went upstairs, we turned off all the lights in upstairs rooms except our bedroom, closed all other bedroom doors, opened the door to the attic (from where it probably came) and went downstairs. In the morning, it was gone. My wife was less perturbed than I, but if a video had been made it would have been even funnier than the Irish one–me hobbling about on a cane trying to chase the bat, and her with the 8 foot long pole and net.
We get these hairy looking Megabats called the flying fox. the ficus tree outside my daughters bedroom window gets swarmed annually with flying foxes- essentially fruit bats- when the tree is in fruit season. And boy are they noisy! The tree gets ravaged during the night and they leave a real mess underneath it. They are also pests as their numbers are out of control (it’s a bit of a political issue in some States) which animal activists and environmentalist are intent on “protecting”. Even though they wreck havoc to fruit orchards and spread Lyssavirus and Hendra virus. Numbers are out of control in northern sub-tropical and tropical Australian regions. You can always count on our animals being larger and a little more menacing than your average species- spiders, snakes, dingos, lizards etc etc and yes- bats too!
https://sydneybats.org.au/flying-foxes/
https://sydneybats.org.au/figs-a-flying-fox-favourite/