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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
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 Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 07:05:14 AM
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I have a really large sewing studio, and the ceiling is fifteen feet tall at the top part. It is connected to my barn, but I didn't realize just how connected....until my son spotted a bat zooming around. The cats were very interested in this little airborne surprise, but I wasn't all that thrilled.
My son was trying to chase him over to the door to the balcony, but the bat was having a great time flying about, trying out the rafters for roosts. After a good fifteen minutes of lots of hi-jinks, on the bat's part and my son's, the bat was captured and released. I hope he found his way back to the barn.
I love that the bats eat so many mosquitos, but I really don't want them inside the house...
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
http://moodranch.blogspot.com
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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crafter
True Blue Farmgirl
2313 Posts
lori
Fort Atkinson
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 07:40:51 AM
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Oh My Karin!! We have some bats in our church- and they freak me out!! Did you get it out of your studio?
xoxo-Lori
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 07:56:56 AM
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Ha! How true, Karin--they are amazing little creatures, but I don't want them in my belfry, either!!! I watch one each night out at our street light, sailing back and forth, scooping up gazillions of insects as he goes. They really are sortof cute when you meet them up close...though I can honestly say that I've only met them up close at the zoo 
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 08:09:19 AM
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Yikes! Maybe he just wanted a little quilt for his children! My brother and I found one in our barn when we were little and caught it and placed it in a bird cage. We thought we could keep it as a pet. ha ha That bat was out of there so fast! It always amazes me what small spaces they can wriggle through. Let's hope you can find where he came in and block it up so he doesn't come back for a visit.
The Other Karin :)
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
www.perfectlittlemiracle.blogspot.com
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 10:55:07 AM
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Ewwww! I'm glad your son was there to do the capture and release!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 11:15:38 AM
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| We just had a bat in our bedroom last week. It was not a good experience. We've heard a lot in the past couple of years about bat rabies, and we knew that NYS has a health recommendation that if you are ever asleep in a room with a bat (ie, you wake up and spot it) you are supposed to catch the bat and bring it into a lab for rabies testing. So that's what we had to do. Catching the bat at 2am was not fun, and then of course I had to be the one to take it in to the lab. And I felt absolutely terrible when they opened up the box and revealed this tiny, helpless little creature. I'm still torn about what to do if this happens again. I don't want to kill any more bats if I don't have to! I'm thinking maybe strings of bells hanging in the bedroom windows, so we'll wake up right away if anything starts to come in...I'm only half kidding. |
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babysmama
True Blue Farmgirl
931 Posts
Elizabeth
Iowa
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 12:00:06 PM
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I'm the one with a phobia of bats so I would have freaked out had one been in my studio! We had a bat in our house a few years ago and had to get it tested since it was in my daughter's bedroom when she was asleep. I felt bad for the little guy and he did test negitive for rabies.
Just this year we had to get my daughter rabies shots after a bat on the driveway grabbed onto her foot and her story kept changing about what happened. Now my thirteen year old sister is getting them due to stepping on a bat in the grass at the pool and getting bit...and not being able to find the bat later. There have been a lot of grounded bats around this town lately so it makes me kind of nervous.
But, bats outside are good things and do take care of bugs. We have SOOOO many bugs around (and get eaten alive after just a few minutes outside in the evening) that I can't imagine what it would be like without the bats! So glad you were able to capture the bat and return him to where he belongs!
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 12:57:05 PM
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Karin,
I would have been in the barn until he was out of the house. Of course I guess there was really nothing to fear with the trusty tabbys right there waiting for something to play with.
Nancy Jo
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 2:23:57 PM
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I have to admit I have a soft spot for the little guys. We have always had a lot of them out here. They seem to have such a wondeful time zooming around catching the bugs. I love to watch them. they will come and get the bugs off the back deck when we sit out there. I don't think having them in the house would be too good. I have to doxies that would sure give them a run for their money!
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 8:54:22 PM
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Gosh Karin, you had more company in your sewing room, of the flying kind this time.....I would have been yelling my head off. I know they can't hurt me, and I scare them by my sceaming, but ehhhhh gadssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 9:48:14 PM
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Oh, I love my little fruit bats, ( mice with wings), they are too cute. I have a little goldfish pond in my little front yard, and in the early eves, when the little bats come out, I will sit on the porch and watch them fly and dip the water to drink as they are going past to grab some more bugs. FYI, bats drink water while on the fly, literaly, the swoop and skim the water with their mouth open and drink that way, they do not land and drink.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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