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Jan 17, 2018, 06:28 AM
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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. 
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Jan 17, 2018, 07:00 AM
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Oh what fun - NOT!!!
How about calling you local health department to ask what to do with the body? If it didn't bite or scratch anyone seems like you could just bury it or chuck it in the trash, but you could ask. Seems lie you could hose any nastiness off the shovel and broom. Maybe spray them with something like Lysol afterward? |
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Jan 19, 2018, 10:22 AM
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Poor bat....Yep, in the country we get all kinds if critters in the house especially in the cold weather.
I dont think I would worry about rabies. But you could dispose of it in the trash placed in several layers of plastic bags. Or ask the health department what is best to do with it. I have a sink hole that I put dead critters in. Figure they go back to nature with the help of the coyotes & buzzards. Thst bat almost sounds similar to my little hummer that got in my house when I had my sliding door open feeding my woodsie raccoon family. Poor little hummer kept flying into the window. Thought it was going to break it's beak. It finally collapsed on the window sill & I scooped it into a pladtic cup & took iy outside. Yep, wildlife loves my house. I am in the process of trying to catch a mouse. First signs came the other night when container on the top shelf of my kitchen shelving landed on the floor, then a package of mulling spices tipped over, then my bsking cooling racks landed on the floor. Put a cracker in my humane mouse trap & it was gone but the mouse wasnt in it. They dont want to be out in the cold & snow either. Many people here get bats in their homes because they dont have caps on their fireplace chimineys. I had a cap installed when I moved here. No bats in my house but many fly around this area. Had one with bad radar get killed in the grill of my truck a few years ago. Never thought that could happen.
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Jan 19, 2018, 11:01 AM
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Personally I would just toss the broom and shovel----rabies is lethal and bats can definitely be carriers. Anecdotally my former boss and her husband are doctors and had a similar event----they went to get an expensive shot series in a similar incident. They however had been asleep with the bat in the house and could not verify that there was not a bite incident. I don't think they'll test the bat so much as give you the shot just in case----its not worth the risk of dying.
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Jan 19, 2018, 11:27 AM
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Dang I know when I get bit by spiders immediately I would definitely know if I got bit by a bat.
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Jan 19, 2018, 12:43 PM
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Jan 19, 2018, 02:30 PM
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Oh wow. 3:30 in the morning... so not what anyone needs to be dealing with at that hour!
Yikes. And, poor bat. I wish that it had been better at taking the hints and managing to navigate back out of the house!  Glad it's gone now though and your house is hopefully peaceful again. Hope you got some sleep after all that. 3:30... way too late to still be up (and to early to be up for the next day). 
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Jan 19, 2018, 07:21 PM
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I've only managed to chase one, sort of, if using blankets to guide out a door is considered chasing. My 14yr old was 3 yet remembers upon my just asking. I didn't think about rabies then, arggg...maybe that's what ails him
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