Cripes - I gotta bat in my house - in December - in Maine

[jpak]

The cats almost got it last weekend - wrecked the house.

It got away and hid.

It just flew into the kitchen cabinets.

Oh

Fuck

Me

[dameatball]

1. Have all the Robins flown south yet?

[jpak]

4. Actually no

and we have a South American Great Black Hawk that has taken up residency in a park in Portland Maine.

https://www.maineaudubon.org/news/rare-bird-alert-great-black-hawk/

[dameatball]

10. Very cool.

[PoliticAverse]

2. As long as it's not in your belfry. n/t

[samnsara]

3. that bat shouldnt be out of hibernation yet...

...the fungus thats killing them wakes them up mid hibernation with massive itching.....once they are awake, theres no food for them so they die out. We had a few living in our rafters....they were so tiny!!anyway they just disappeared.

[jpak]

6. I know - but the fungus that kills them grows best at low temperatures

I'm thinking they are enjoying central heating and were disturbed by my 12 YO feral kitteh.

[raccoon]

5. Sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King story. nt

[jpak]

8. I'm wearing a garland of garlic to bed tonight.

Series though - I feel bad for the poor bat...

[doc03]

7. I had one in my attic

this summer. I turned the lights on and opened a window after dark. I sat in the yard until I saw it leave then closed the window and patched the
screen on the gable vent so he couldn't get back in. I also found a light/ultrasound device to put in the light
sockets. They work as a light or a light/ultrasound generator. It is intended to repel mice and rats but I think they may
also work on bats.

[jpak]

9. The poor thing would die if i shooed it outside right now

No insects

Below zero

[dhol82]

12. What is it getting to eat in your house?

Can you call the local zoo or a wildlife rehabilitator?

[jpak]

14. They should be hibernating and conserving energy.

In March 2017 - I had THREE in the house.

Called every local and state agency and - nada

It's up to me.

[femmedem]

18. It might need water. They dehydrate quickly because of the surface area of their wings.

If you don't have enough insects up there and don't have a way to get mealworms, I read on one site that they can eat a bit of canned cat food mashed to a paste.

Rehydration: plain tap water or a pinch of sugar and a pinch of salt in one cup water.

[jpak]

21. There is plenty of water and canned cat food available for the little guy

But my cats would probably get it.

I just hope it makes it to spring and I can let it go.

[doc03]

13. Well I guess you should learn to live together. Catch him and release him in a barn

or something. Below zero

[Doreen]

11. Bats are cute.

OK, now I have said that I hope you are able to figure out what to do. I hope you can do it without putting the bat in danger. At least it has proven by not attacking you or the cats that it does not have rabies.

[LisaL]

15. It hasn't proven it doesn't have rabies.

[diva77]

16. Oh no! Have you seen this?

[whistler162]

17. A Louisville?

[LeftInTX]

19. I would be worried about rabies

Manu Ginobili swatted a bat with his bare hands and had to get a rabies shot.



People have gotten rabies after having a bat in their home without realizing they had contact with one.

[lilactime]

20. Once a bat got stuck between two panes of glass in a bedroom window

in my house. I have no idea how it got in there and since it was a guest room it was just by chance that I discovered it. The gap between the two panes of glass was so narrow I don't think I could fit a piece of paper through it.

Anyway, there was no way to free the bat without opening the window knowing that meant it would most likely fly into the room before I could open the other pane of glass to the outside. Luckily there is another window in that room so I opened that one, pushed the screen up, then opened the one with the bat stuck in it, ran like hell out of the room slamming the door after me. Luckily it worked. But I'm still mystified as to how the bat became stuck there in the first place.