Well I have had enough fun and adventure for the night. Just before 3:30am I was sitting in the kitchen drinking a soda and pondering sleep when I see a bat flying into the kitchen. Well ****, do what now?

My son and I armed ourselves with brooms and mops and our two snake shovels (we get occasional wild snakes wandering about the house). We opened doors to outside the house and tried to guide the bat to the door but my gps did not translate to bat gps. He ended up under the sofa. Good enough, we said, as he was in the living room and we shut the doors so he could not get into the main part of the house.

But noooooo... My son googled bats and they only need a space of one centimeter to go through. So the chase continued...

FINALLY my son trapped it onto the floor with the broom and then the bat died a traumatic death by snake shovel. WTF! So now I wonder what to do with the bat corpse. Can I get its squished remains tested for rabies? If yes, where? Health department? As far as we know we didn't have skin contact with it. Also how to clean the broom and shovel? Forty-five minutes chasing a bat. Fun times.