Bat terrorizes home.

[Happy Camper]

So I'm sitting at my laptop, listening to music and thread surfing the forums, when I felt air across my face. I looked around but it was dark in the room (except for the laptop). I felt it again and seen a shadow cross the light on the screen. So I turn on the lights thinking to see a moth. It was a bat flying through the living room. I have several dogs in their cages and thought about rabbies from bats and what a loss it could be if the bat got into the cages. So I tried to chase it down with a sheet when it flew into the back end of my speaker and fell down between the electrostatic panel and the woofer cabinet.

I covered the opening with the sheet and lugged the speaker out on the porch. The poor thing must have been scared. So I removed the sheet and stood back so it would see a way to get out. It crawled out, looked around a bit and left. My wife woke up to see it fly away. Of course I had to go through the house to assure her there were no others.

It's not common to have bats around my home because of our location (though it is a rural farm town). To have one show up in the house after midnight was startling. I guess it must have come down the chimney. For the farm raised, this is not too unusual. For a city boy, I freaked for a moment.

 

[colonelkernel8]

I'd get a security system installed man. Could've been a spy for Batman.

 

[LFF]

Wow. I would have freaked out. Call your local pest control agency. They might help!

 

[progo]

Use mustard and power current. That works every time.
[size=xx-small]A very bad joke at another forum.[/size]

 

[greydragon]

Did you check for fang marks on everybody in the house?

 

[troymadison]

Looks like you got yourself cujo 2

 

[gmoffatt]

Ugh -- that happened twice in an apartment I used to live in. They fly around and around and around and every time they come straight at you. The way I'd catch them was with a big tupperware bowl and some thin cardboard. When it would finally land, I'd sneak up and jam the bowl over top and slide the cardboard up to close the bowl so I could lift it away.

I don't like bats in the house.

 

[GAD]

Bats are awesome creatures. I'm amused at how many people are terrified of them. On any warm night you can go into my yard and see scores of them in the sky. Throw a tennis ball up and they'll chase it.

I've had way worse than bats in my house (farm raised!).

GAD

 

[troymadison]

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Originally Posted by GAD /img/forum/go_quote.gif Bats are awesome creatures. I'm amused at how many people are terrified of them. On any warm night you can go into my yard and see scores of them in the sky. Throw a tennis ball up and they'll chase it. I've had way worse than bats in my house (farm raised!). GAD

lol how worse can they be

 

[Duggeh]

I'm going to go to bed with the Addams Family theme tune stuck in my head now.

 

[mrdeadfolx]

You mean the MC Hammer song from the 1990 Addams Family movie? That was a great tune. Great now Ive got to find somewhere to download it.

 

[GAD]

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Originally Posted by troymadison /img/forum/go_quote.gif lol how worse can they be

Ever had a raccoon in your house? Cute little buggers, but we had a family decide to move into the basement on the farm. Within days damn near everything in the basement was destroyed and we had the pleasure of being infested with fleas. (ew).

Rats are fun when they get in too. Those smart little buggers can be hard to catch/kill. It's amazing how crafty they can be. They do subtle damage too. Saw them all the time in the barns.

Squirrels are bad news. They seem to like to chew electrical wiring which can cause outages or worse - fire. They tend to freak when they're inside and cause all sorts of Hell. We had a squirrel systematically chew through a propane hose. He'd pass out from the fumes, then get up and start chewing until he passed out again.

We has some sort of huge spider come in the house. Think tarantula only a tad bit smaller. They like wood piles. I was told it was a "wood spider", but never found any proof of that.

Wood dauber wasps. Normally they don't bother anyone and they eat spiders (and pack them alive into their little burrows for their young to feed on - ew), but I got stung once and my hand looked like a blown up surgical glove...

Ever had honey bees make a nest inside your house? If they find a little crack outside they can start to make a nest in the walls or the floors etc. You'll be sitting on the couch and just hear buzzing everywhere.

People who think any living thing should never be killed never lived on a farm.

GAD

 

[slowpogo]

I have a fear of bats, and also spiders, due to incidents when I was younger. When I was about 8, I was staying at my grandparents' farm house. It was a very old, creepy house, straight out of a horror flick. In the middle of the night I woke up to see a bat laying on my chest. I freaked and screamed a lot. To this day, my rational side cannot overcome the stomach-churning fear I have of bats.

Another time I was in the storage space in the basement of my childhood home, and while digging through things disturbed a wolf spider. It ran out and scared the sweet bejesus out of me. (Wolf spiders are hairy, raquetball sized, and have two rows of large eyes arranged in a rack on top of their head)

Strangely, I was a teenager hiking in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when a huge black bear wandered in front of my party. It just kept going while we cowered behind trees (it probably didn't even see us) but I didn't feel half the fear as I feel toward bats.

 

[Superpredator]

Da na na na na na na na da na na na na na na na.

 

[Acoustic Chef]

I hope your speakers are ok...