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Holy Sh-t!! I was just finishing up the thread on the vintage cars, when I saw it flying around the room!! A bat!! It landed on the railing in the dining room and started squeaking. I rushed out to the back porch, put a baseball hat on, and got a broom. Chased the motha all over the front room and dining room. Kept missing it, but kept right on swingin'as the bat kept on "dive bombing" me. Knocked it down as it came at me again, then smacked it on the dining room floor a few time. It was still moving, so I hit it a few more times, then started "sweeping it" toward through the kitchen, and on toward the back door. Got it out to the door, onto the back porch,opened the porch door and swept it out into the night.

Old houses..... Gotta love em!!

Yours truely,
Batman
 
sounds horrific! once i was coming up the elevator at my apartments and as the doors parted i immediately see a bat flying back and forth. i screamed, frantically press the first floor button, got out on the ground floor and left! walked around for about an hour until i thought it was gone.
 
How funny! Sounds like you had some fun. Its good to make sure you are awake enough to keep posting...
 
And events like these....

are why you get your cats and dogs their rabies shots! Even if your cat(s) never goes outside.

I'm sure you were distressed, Rick. I am glad it's over.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
One night a bat was flying around the transmitter hall at the site-everyone else was hiding in the control room.I went into the transmitter area,turned off most of the lights and opened the outside doors going from the outside to into the transmitter area-the bat then flew out.His sonar or whatever worked quite well-he never flew into me-always dodged me.One of the other guys that works out here told me when a Deer got into the building-also I have seen snakes in here-guess they want the mice?Looks like the animals around here want to run transmitters?
 
Not happy, but not distressed either. Have lived in a 120 year old home for 28 years. Don't get bats too often, however do get one about every other year or so. Tonight is not the first time. The very first time I saw one here, the bat was laying on the floor in a closet. I thought it was just an old black sock rolled up, and tried to pick it up!!! It opened it's little pink mouth and went,"eeeee, eeeeee, eeeeeee" I just FREAKED!! LOL!! That was the only time I remember seeing one in my bedroom, so I guess I'm not Count Dracula yet. >:)
 
About 3 years ago in the early morning we could hear noise coming from the attic. Checked to see if there were any openings were critters could get in. Found 1 hole about the size of my fist in the eave on the east side of the house. Closed it up and called an exterminator. He went up and set out 2 traps and some bags of bait. When he came back a week later, he had caught a total of 7 bats, YUCK! Have'nt had trouble since, but I now regularly inspect the eaves and soffits for openings.
 
How do they get in?

I used to find them on the second floor once in awhile, however that stopped after I found a broken window on the dormer, and replaced it.

I suspect they go down the chimney, as there is no screen on the top of the chimney at all,just a metal "rain guard" thing suspended above the chimney opening. There never has been a screen though. One time about 15 years ago I came home to find 2 huge blackbirds flying around in the basement. They would have had to come down the chimney, as that would have been the only way to get down the there. As a matter of fact, I do recall something buzzing by me a couple times yesterday while I was down the basement, but just thought it was a fly. The kitchen door from the basement was left open all day yesterday, and even until I went to bed last night. Prolly should have a screen put up on the chimney I guess.

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The old movie theatre downtown that a local group has been trying for YEARS to renovate for a community theater [as in stage plays]) is infested. My daytime job happens to be in the building next door, which shares a common wall. Bats are often seen swooping around outside in the evening, I've watched them fly up the alley where I park my car. There have been two incidents of bats in the office (two that I know of). The City has called for a "bat alert" a few times due to dead rabid specimens found on other places around town. I called in a dead one outside the theater last year, it was gone the next day. Bats don't particularly bother me, except for the rabies potential.

Oh, there was one swooping around in projection one night a few years ago at the 'new' theatre.
 
Bats in the belfry

You should have just caught it with a net or something. (an old pair of panty hose if you have them) They are really harmless and are great at eating over 50 times their weight in bugs each night. (especially mosquitos) No reason to kill it. Don't let Hollywood make you afraid! Take care & hugs, Mark
 
Hi Mark

You are correct of course, the bats eat tons of nasty insects. The problem was that I have no panty hose, or net to catch anything. My main concern was that the bat would fly up to the second floor where the bedrooms are. In other words, it was me or the bat. LOL!!

You know, I did look outside in the back yard for the bat today. Never found a trace of it. They are tougher than what one might think. I think it was only stunned.
 

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