Batman! Quick Work!
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I forgot to close my flu to the chimney last Spring after our last fire of the Winter. When the weather warmed up I saw something out of the corner of my eye in the hallway while laying in bed. We leave a light on in the hallway so the youngest can see if she gets up to use the bathroom. At first I thought it was a bug flying in our room, but quickly realized it was a bat. So I got up, covered my body head to toe in clothes, and went to find it. I found it downstairs in one of the living rooms, hanging on a blind.
There are 2 animals that REALLY creep me out. Possums and bats. Because it was across the room from the doorway to access the room, panic set in because I didn't know how I would catch it. I went to the garage and grabbed the pop-up net we use for baseball. I threw it across the room at the damn bat hoping it would get caught in there. All that accomplished was knocking the bat free, while completely trashing the blind, ruining it. It flew around a little bit as I cowered in the coat closet. When it stopped flying around I came back out and found it in that same room, on the blind on the other side of the big picture window (still across the room from the door access). I literally told my wife I was gonna get the 12 gauge, shoot it through the window, and pay for another new blind and window. Needless to say, that idea was shot down quicker than it took me to think it up. So I went to the garage, got a big snow shovel and push broom. I snuck into the room and smacked that thing with the back of the shovel, killing it. I scooped it up, took it outside, and stuck it in a plastic bag on the front steps.i called animal control the next day. They came and got It, and tested it for rabies just in case. Thankfully it tested negative.
Thinking about it still creeps me out!
There are 2 animals that REALLY creep me out. Possums and bats. Because it was across the room from the doorway to access the room, panic set in because I didn't know how I would catch it. I went to the garage and grabbed the pop-up net we use for baseball. I threw it across the room at the damn bat hoping it would get caught in there. All that accomplished was knocking the bat free, while completely trashing the blind, ruining it. It flew around a little bit as I cowered in the coat closet. When it stopped flying around I came back out and found it in that same room, on the blind on the other side of the big picture window (still across the room from the door access). I literally told my wife I was gonna get the 12 gauge, shoot it through the window, and pay for another new blind and window. Needless to say, that idea was shot down quicker than it took me to think it up. So I went to the garage, got a big snow shovel and push broom. I snuck into the room and smacked that thing with the back of the shovel, killing it. I scooped it up, took it outside, and stuck it in a plastic bag on the front steps.i called animal control the next day. They came and got It, and tested it for rabies just in case. Thankfully it tested negative.
Thinking about it still creeps me out!
Hahaha! Wish we had that on tape! The ironic thing is...I am seen popping open the front door and before I could come around to the garage door my buddy was already coming in for it, I had grabbed 2 tennis rackets to clamp him between and a fishing net, which were supposed to be two separate weapons, instead he swooped one of each...and he happens to be the friend that loves to fish but wears gloves to touch them(good practice) but he's grossed out, apparently bats dont phase him!
Laughing That's probably not a story I would have shared. Now IF it had been a snake... I got to be the go to guy for removing snakes and bats from houses in my old neighborhood. I hate snakes, but they're pretty easy to coax in to something dark. Fish nets are the go to capture device for bats. I've got a shed where several hundred bats roost every summer. Good heavens the stench is worse than a chicken coop and I would burn the shed down, but they would just move to another one.
But bats eat so many mosquitoes. They can eat half their body weight on mosquitoes in a night (the info is thanks to Wild Kratts).
And they love my tomato plants too. Eat holes in the tomatoes and crap all over them. Stinking rotten little flying rodents.
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anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi
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Oh hell no. They best stay away from my tomato plants. Now I'm gonna have to put netting around my plants!
Bats are awesome...when they're not inside...3rd one in a year. First one was caught in my wife's shirt in the closet and started stinking for a month before we figured out the cause! The one pictured in the video smashes the sliding door and landed right in her boot...she's really not happy about it! Better than the wolf spiders we had a few years ago IMHO
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I got rid of 99% of spiders over the last year or so. Bi-monthly sprays has really done wonders in that regard
I read that in the 1890s bat guano was the most valuable traded commodity in the WORLD for its fertilizer value
Now there is a mining job Trump ought to bring back- bat guano mining. Couldn't stink worse than his administration
I use peppermint oil inside. Used to use the commercial products but so far it's been pretty effective and cheaper