THERE ARE BATS IN MY HOUSE

I hardly see how staying with the old bat is going to solve this problem.

new "it's not that bad, everything will be fine, you won't need a series of painful injections to cure whatever mysterious bat illnesses you'll get from this" answers, pls.

THANK YOU, MOLEY.

you are the man of the house & you must kill all the motherfuckers yourself

i am sorry

I would be flipping the fuck out. Where are they coming in from?

You guys might want to get rabies vaccines. The risk is pretty small, but you don't wanna be that guy to who gets rabies cos he blew off getting a vaccine.

We had bats in our attic last summer and the resulting bat bug fiasco. UGH. The exterminators told us that they can't kill bats or remove babies (or something). Do you rent or own?

deeznuts is correct, GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ. It's times like this I wish I was a woman, and I only wish you well on what will no doubt be a bloody and traumatic killing spree that may require you to go to hospital.

There are some weird little girls in this world who would be enchanted by this...like me, at age ten, who always begged in vain to get my mom to shop at the Albertson's grocery store where I'd seen bats inside.

I recommend rabies vaccs too, tho, because you can never have too many vaccinations!

Ew I freaked out enough when one possum got into my bathroom - a buttload of bats would be ... ew I mean FLEAS for starters. Bleugh.

The twin sister of this thread:

Bedbugs are spoiling my sleep

Highlight of that thread: Rockist Scientist's post, where he politely inquires as to whether I had been taking any medications that had caused me to HALLUCINATE the bugs. THANKS FOR INTENSIFYING THE PARANOIA PAL.

your bathroom doesn't happen to look like this does it?

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I believe you need the BAT-REPELLENT BAT SPRAY!

bats are magnificent and beneficial

...until they're in your fucking house!

can't say these critters aren't timely

do u live in a belfry??

instead of shelling out for an exterminator, figure out how they're getting into your living space and seal it. i grew up in a big old house and we had the occasional bat but three in a day is odd. srsly tho, they do good work and deserve respect in this thread

what is with your bat affinity goole

makes me wonder

thank you, you assholes. (i mean it, i'm at least chuckling now.)

we rent, and basically the problem is either in the attic over the bedroom (it's partitioned off from the rest of the attic) or around the chimney which goes up past our bedroom. the guys who did most of the repair work before we moved in weren't, uh, thorough, and there's a small gap in the ceiling tile thingies in the bedroom that i think is where they're coming from.

seriously, we don't want them dead - we like bats, just not that much - but it's just stressful chasing a parasite-laden, very slightly possibly rabid animal around with a shoebox and trying to get it out... and realizing getting it out of the house most likely means it's just going to fly right back around and wind up in the same place.

also, just in case you're wondering, "24 hour exterminator" means "24 hour receptionist, exterminator starts work at 9 am."

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Bats are on highway signs in New Mexico to remind people – "Don't drink and drive – you will get arrested for driving while intoxicated and alo I'm a bat!"

What part of the world do you live in? Is it very hot there right now?

A friend of mine said that he saw bats when he was on LSD.

It is very hot! I live in New Mexico! (SW America!) I am drinking a beer so I can't drive or the bats will get me.

oscar acosta lives xp

I ask because we had our problems with bats last summer when it started to broil in Denver...

i live in new jersey. it's been hottish. if you were asking me.

Yes, I was asking you. Sorry for the confusion. It seems like bats go on the move when their attics get hot.

And hey, Abbott, you should do a good deed and send me some green chili.

Keep them and start a metal band; it'll make for good press releases.

When you don't get a record deal, your street team can start a publicity campaign entitled 'Release the Bats'.

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In the UK if you have bats in the house it is very hard to get rid of them as they are protected species. However, normally they won't come into the living areas except by accident.

There's no need for an exterminator, just plug up the holes where they are coming in. They tend not to stay in inhabited buildings for more than a few months anyway. There are bats in our area and they regularly move their nest around. It was really cool when they were in the house a few streets along that looks like the house from the Addams Family.
Bats don't want to be around people anymore than people want to be around bats. There's no need for a rabies vaccination, unless you actually get bitten, which is very unlikely. All this "vampire bat" stuff is just a myth.

What snoball said. Also, bats are great.

i should be clear on this, you CAN'T KILL BATS in new jersey (at least not with poison), nor would i want to - but the exterminators do bat remediation. in fact i'm specifically going to tell the dude that if he wants to kill the bats not to bother coming. i just don't want them nesting right above my bed or coming in. i'd be happy to install a bat box on the roof or something, just don't need to share space with them.

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/pest-control/how-to-get-rid-of-bats

How to get rid of bats

Clumsy me. Both links lead to the same page.

Ha! No they don't. Use the top link.

snoball speaks sense.

Although the situation isn't pleasant, the bats are not going to attack you.

They move bloody fast, though.

tell me about it, i had them attacking my fishing rod & line the other night

Just to be safe, I would wear a pointy hat made of bacofoil just to deflect their echo-locators and make you appear invisible.

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In the UK if you have bats in the house it is very hard to get rid of them as they are protected species.

can't help thinking that the fact that the UK is rabies free may have dictated the thinking here. Mind you, iirc the last recorded rabid animal in the UK *was* a bat (which had flown across the English Channel).

Bats are well cute, innit. I'm glad that you are not about to cold-bloodedly murder them, as I first thought on opening this thread.

"You guys might want to get rabies vaccines."

Yes! Apparently they can bit when you're sleeping so you're never sure if they have bitten you or not.

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/OGE/Pictures/White%20Winged%20Vampire%20bats%20Dan%20Riskin.jpg
"We only want to be friends"

In the UK if you have bats in the house it is very hard to get rid of them as they are protected species. However, normally they won't come into the living areas except by accident.

I was staying in a lodge in Aviemore the other week that had bats that we weren't allowed to kill. We kept finding dead bats lying around in the morning (we figured they'd maimed themselves chasing bugs onto the bug zapper thing) and yours truly had to remove them all.
My wife called me one morning to say there was a dead bat outside our room - I went round with a brush and shovel and scooped the little fellow onto the shovel where he proceeded to freak me the fuck out by stretching his wings out, turning his head towards me and screeching in my face.
Upside of having bats is it keeps the midge, moth and spider populations down.

Upside of having bats is it keeps the midge, moth and spider populations down.

yes, I was grateful to the bat population of Venice for keeping the mosquito population down when I was on holiday there a few years back.

I love bats, growing up they were definitely everywhere. Every summer we'd watch the fireworks from the garage roof and all the while bats would divebomb us within a few feet of our heads. I've always had a thing with heights so it was pretty scary and exhilarating in all the best ways, and on top of it all there were brightly colored explosions.

I wonder what happened to the bat house I made in cub scouts.

Oh, and what I think you do is get a really big, thick towel, get the bats flying around, and try to catch them in it and release them. Oh, and figure out how they're getting in and put a stop to it. Somehow. Er.

I'm probably not being all that helpful, sorry. I was a kid, I think that's how the grownups did it. Also some attempt with a frying pan or something, couldn't tell you which worked.

Haha, can you tell I'm in the middle of moving? I'm overloaded with nostalgia for places I used to live.

advice on this from a guy named rabies. that's rich.

dreaming of wild animals in your house indicates there is an area of your life which is beyond your control and it is causing you much anxiety. unfortunately, it means the same thing in real life. good luck!

so the landlord had some guys come out today and install an excluder tunnel where the bats were coming in and do some temporary patching in the bedroom. hopefully tonight will be bat free. i still haven't really gone in the bedroom, though, so my mind is filled with hundreds of hissing, angry bats staring at me when i eventually get in there.

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My neighbour called me round to his house yesterday cos he had heard a scratching sound behind his boarded-up fireplace. Didn't really know what we were going to get and was sort of hoping for THE BATZ but it turned out to be just a big fat old woodpigeon, god knows how he squeezed down the chimney. Wrapped him up and drove him to the wildlife hospital (=cranky but saintly old bloke with a garage full of baby hedgehogs, injured badgers and orphaned fox cubs - but also no BATZ).

you just turned down free lunch

Bats: extant? Gott Punch?

and he was never heard from again

He got a DWI and the DWI bat whisked him to Carlsbad hell!

Happy bat

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