Batman in my bedroom

[Postmaster]

I was sitting in front of this forum when the wive screemed like she would be killed in the bedroom.

When I came there, a bat was flying in circles over her head, scared the sh*t out of her.

Catch it! ...yeah right, catching a bat.

After I opened the windows the bat decided to see the rest of the house and I tryed to follow her. After watching her flying circles between the dining room, living room and library I tried to bring her down with a big towel.

Took me about 10 minutes to have her exhausted (and slow enough - man those beasts are damn fast) enough to get her on the floor.

There she is, little fur ball, the wings tightly wrapped arround her body, shivering and awayting her death.

I wrapped her carefully into the towel and took her out on the balkony.
Poor little thing - I hope I haven´t hurt her to much with that hit.

That was about half an hour ago - now she is still on that towel on the balkony, brathing, shivering, moving arround, but probably to weak to fly away.

I feel bad, but what else could I do? She refused to go out of the open windows.

Frank

[Zacatac]

interesting story... you know someones gonna read this, send PETA on your ass.... lol

ive had a fair share of bat experiences in and outside

[Capt Quirk]

I remember my wife screaming like that in the bedroom one day, very much like yours. I go running in to see what sort of Hellish beast is threatening her, only to find out it was one of these-
http://floridagardener.com/critters/Cubananole.jpg

I asked what the problem was, and she said it was on her pillow. Still not seeing the problem, I accused her of overreacting. If she's going to scream like that, it better be Godzilla, or at the very least, a sizable Gator.

[Larry Rutledge]

I recently had an experience with a bird flying into the house. I tried using a broom to shoo it toward the back door where it came in, but it stayed up at the ceiling where I couldn't reach it. I left the doors open and left the room, when I came in later it had flown out so I closed the house back up.

I later learned that birds move toward bright lights, so the recommendation is to open a single door or window, then cover all other windows making those parts of the house dark and leaving the opening the brightest spot. Supposedly this helps them find their way out easier.

Though that wouldn't be much help with a bat. The other option was to get a large sheet and use that to corral the creature toward the door...but if, as in my case, your the only person there, or the other person/people are freaking out (as your wife was) it is hard to manipulate the sheet in that manner :) I guess you did the right thing, I'm sure it will be ok.

I do remember a guy I worked with had a bat in his house and he used two tennis rackets to trap it in mid flight then went out the door and released it ... it seemed to be ok.

[dory_breaux]

Murphy's law whatever-were-on-at-this-point: A small mammal or bird that finds itself into a house through the smallest of openings will NOT be able to find its way out through the largest of openings.

[Everts]

Thats why I always keep a batminton in my room .

Get it a "bat" minton.
Bat in the room .Aaaahh you guys are hard to please.

[Postmaster]

A view hours later I looked after her and she is gone.

Phew, I feel better now.
The wive (thou she was scared to hell and back) was in deep sorrow
that she was severe injured or broke a wing.

I hope there is no "Batman Returns" sequel. ;-)

What realy amazed me, is the unbeliveable speed
and the insane precession they fly between the furniture.

Usualy you don´t have the chance to watch them 10 minutes under light.
So I found out, that she was going always the same route over and over keeping exactly
the perfect interspace between the furniture and the walls.
Probably a function aft the sonar fly system they have.
Faszinating creatures.


Frank

[ugafan]

glad everything turned out okay. what's crazy is when you get a bird fly in a car full of people. talk about chaos! :)

[Simon Höfer]

A view hours later I looked after her and she is gone.

So the neighbors cat came and had a nice dinner? :evil:

[Nefertiti]

...That was about half an hour ago - now she is still on that towel on the balkony, brathing, shivering, moving arround, but probably to weak to fly away.

So the neighbors cat came and had a nice dinner...

[Postmaster]

Arrrrgh!

[JConnors]

I have friends in Toronto, about 7-8 years ago my buddy woke up at 3am hearing scratching through his wall and found a bat in his the corner of his room. He woke up his roomates, they broke out the camera and for 15 minutes they freaked out with this bat flying around their apartment. I'm trying track down the footage, it's online somewhere but it is poo pooing priceless, one of the guys dressed up with a hockey helmet with a cage and oven mitts, the bat eventually flew into the bathroom and landed in the toliat, they ended rescuing it, took it outside and set it free. I'll post the video when I can find it, but its hilarious, watching these guys freak out over a bat.

[ddp]

My only question is how did you know it was a girl bat?...... or maybe I don't need to know......:)

[Capt Quirk]

My only question is how did you know it was a girl bat?...... or maybe I don't need to know......:)Or maybe you really don't want to know :eek:

[Postmaster]

I could give you a lesson about the strange use of definite articles in german language and that I carry that sometimes over to english...

but actualy...

.....girly bats got longer eyelashes. ;-)

Frank

....and for the record: NO, I have NOT investigated any other features of the bats body.