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In my futal attempt to fall asleep this evening, I heard what sounded like it could have been a squirrel outside my room. It was running into things and making the clicking noises of squirrel nails running. Having had a few squirrels in the house already I decided not to worry about it this evening because it was three AM and to take care of it in the morning.
I don't have curtains in my room so the mirror in my room reflects the outside light. I had opened my eyes and looked at the mirror and saw what looked like something swooping around. I weirdly thought it was just the fan making some strange light pattern and then realized that wasn't possible. And then there was that moment where I knew it was a bat.
So I left my room and went to the bathroom, leaving my door open and the bat began to fly around my room and the kitchen. Meanwhile I was cowering near the bathroom door. Luckily a friend who is visiting happened to be awake and she came out of her room, saw my face peaking out of the bathroom and the bat flying around. She grabbed a box and after a few minutes of watching the bat fly around, followed it into my room and opened the one window without a screen. Eventually she caught it in the box and then just threw the whole thing out the window (3 stories up). She opened the door laughing. I can just imagine watching the box flying out the window from the third floor.
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Yeah, I hear your pain. Last week we had a 3 or 4 foot lizard come into our house. It tried escaping through closed doors, climbing halfway up. Finally, Fahim, my hero, opened the garage door and gave it a clear line of escape. It left.
Unfortunately, the rest of its family is still on our roof. And it probably rejoined them, too.
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I even have pictures. I'll post a link after I post the pics. But yeah, it was pretty "Eeeek!"
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When I was in a very large political science class in college, there was a bat one day. This other girl and I watched that bat crawl very, very slowly arount on the carpeted steps. No flying, no noises. Finally it got near enough to some guy on the football team that he screamed and jumped up and pointed. The whole class freaked out. The teacher was not at all impressed with hysterics and made us move away and give the bat his own area of the room and then we finished lecture. I wanted to stay right where I was but he wasn't having that.
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Before I started having my kids I worked at the Writing Centre at the local University. It was located on the top floor of the library which was a big ugly hollow 70s concrete building. The biology department on Campus raised bats and I imagine all the ones that got away took residence in the library. Whenever I worked late I could hear them in the ceiling of my office. It was eerie.
I recall a student coming into the centre, to the office of one of our student advisors, to let us know there was a dead bat on the floor. That went down in our history as one of the oddest student inquiries we ever got. (yes there WAS a dead bat on the floor; we called the front desk of the library and let them deal with it). Icky.
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Once I was standing on the dock of my uncle's pond and I saw something flying/falling from the sky. It was around dusk. The thing fell right at my feet and I realized it was a bat. Well I gently put my foot on it and picked it up by the ends of its wings. I held it up to look at it and WHOOSH something flew up right toward my face and almost hit me. After a stunned moment I realized what had happened. I had picked up TWO bats that had been mating. One of the coolest things to ever happen to me.
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I like your friend, kojabu -- she sounds like me!
Friends are always calling me over when something like that freaks them - because it doesn't bother me in the slightest...
...like the time I had to fish a rat snake out of a toilet (it had come up the sewer system, and a lady had gone in to use the toilet, and... well you get the picture).
I easily snabbed it up, put it in a pillowcase and let it go out in the country.
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Some kids in my neighborhood were playing with a dead bat once. They ended up throwing it in a canal.
For safetey reasons, all four of them had to go through the entire rabies vaccination process (couldn't find the body and prove it didn't have rabies.)
We had one clinging to the ceiling for an entire church service once. Even our awful singing didn't wake it up.
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Farmgirl, this same friend got rid of a squirrel the other day at 8 in the morning when no one else is awake. I don't know what we'll do when she leaves. Posts: 2867 | Registered: May 2005
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Hah, see the funny thing is that if I had to pick a superhero alterego, it would be Batman. There is a way to alter my last name so that it becomes batman and this one kid used to sing the batman theme as I went by him in HS.
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quote:Originally posted by Crotalus: Once I was standing on the dock of my uncle's pond and I saw something flying/falling from the sky. It was around dusk. The thing fell right at my feet and I realized it was a bat. Well I gently put my foot on it and picked it up by the ends of its wings. I held it up to look at it and WHOOSH something flew up right toward my face and almost hit me. After a stunned moment I realized what had happened. I had picked up TWO bats that had been mating. One of the coolest things to ever happen to me.
Sorry, this just totally made me laugh.
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Was the bat...in the box when it fell out of the window? Like, trapped in the box? Or was the box just used to transport the bat to the window? Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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My friend caught it in the box, and then didn't know how to get it out of my room so she just threw the whole thing out the window. It was the only way she could think of to make sure it definately left and didn't fly back in. Then she got all scared that she had hurt the bat so we went outside to make sure it wasn't dead or anything.
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One morning I woke up really early because there was this weird squeaking noise coming from around my bed. A bat was crawling on the floor and it looked unable to fly. The only way I could think it could have gotten in was that my cat must have caught it around the floo grate in the fireplace. Posts: 4089 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I was worried that the bat got hurt.
