Spending even 5 sec. with a bat is.....

[LH]

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..NO FUN! I was closing my bulkhead door watching the bats skim the pool and one was right in my face! I dropped the freakin bulkhead door and he fell into the passagway. Spilling my ever-loving beer, he flew back up and bounced around the bulkhead steps wacking me all the way with his insane fluttering. I opened the other side of the bulkhead and he snaked up my arm and off he went!

SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!!!.........I gotta check myself.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I love bats!

I had a rare one sleeping in the rafters of my barn once.

   

[LH]

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Oh! I like bats also, they eat bugs and are cool, but not shoved into MY space real fast like that, I though he was a big June bug until he smiled! The door was half-way closed and he surprized me. Unsettling I tell ya. Plus I dropped my a Heineken from my 12 pack for 10.99 today! waitaminute............

[twisteroo]

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I like bats too, but of course not in my face either. A couple of years ago one somehow found it's way into my bedroom, we thought there was a horse race going on upstairs as on of the cats wanted that bat really bad. I ended up opening all the windows and just waited for it to find it's way out.
When I was a kid we would go out under the street light and try to shoot them with shotguns, they are pretty damn hard to hit. I never was able to get one.

Disclaimer: I did a lot of stupid shit when I was a kid, a lot of stupid shit that involved shotguns.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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We had one trapped in the cellar once and the cat was trying his damnedest for it! I decided that we shouldn't let him catch it as bats carry rabies and it was too risky if the cat ate his head or got bit in the process.

We closed the lights in the basement and turned on a bright light outside the doors. He left quite quickly toward the light.

How he got in the cellar is a mystery. It was one of those dark, damp dank places that only had one of those external outside doors and you climbed down into it. No windows or anything.

[twisteroo]

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Those bats can get through just about any crack, that's how I figured it got into the bedroom, just a mistake.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I hadn't thought of that. If that's the case, that 'dungeon' we had should have been FULL of them because it was attached to the crawl under the rest of the house, where although drier, it too should have been full of the buggers! They weren't sealed up very well and were old and full of cracks!

[Rhubarb]

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I have been facinated with bats. We had them in the rafters of our first military lodging. It was great Liz (my neighbour, whose hubby was in Northern Ireland on duty) and I would sit on the open porch and watch them pouring out of the roof.
The woodland park where we bought a chestnut tree has bat boxes set up, but so far I've not seen any. Christine's boyfriend has been up there on his way home from a late and he assures me they are there, just go at the wrong time of day.