About a week ago, I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning by Mark shouting, "There's a bat in here!" and pulling the sheet up over our heads. I was sure he had to be dreaming, how could a bat be flying around our bedroom?! But then I remembered how I had kept hearing something bumping into our paper lamp shade, and realized that Mark wasn't crazy. Well, we hid under the sheet for quite a while discussing all our possible options, Mark's first pick was to hide under the sheets until daylight and hope that the bat would go away. Since it felt like it was about 100 degrees under that sheet I wasn't all about that idea. We ended up making a run for the door, and closed the bat in the room. Then we got online and learned all about bats found in houses, we even watched the video below about how to catch them.
So Mark woke up his brother and they suited up in hoodies and football gloves and went in to catch the bat, only to find it was gone. They looked for it all day and couldn't find it, so we figured it had gotten out the way it had gotten in. Well, that night we were sitting in the living room watching TV when the bat swooped into the living room and started circling. We all dropped to the floor, and Dave army-crawled after it to see where it landed. EVENTUALLY, we got it trapped in our bedroom. Dave and Mark again suited up and went in to catch it. They had about 5 unsuccessful attempts, which involved a lot of yelling, "He's buzzing the tower" and "Just whack it with the manilla envelope" before finally catching it. Needless to say, catching a bat was NOTHING like the video portrayed! And the good news for us is that the bat tested negative for rabies, bad news for the bat is that he didn't get to live to tell the story.
So Mark woke up his brother and they suited up in hoodies and football gloves and went in to catch the bat, only to find it was gone. They looked for it all day and couldn't find it, so we figured it had gotten out the way it had gotten in. Well, that night we were sitting in the living room watching TV when the bat swooped into the living room and started circling. We all dropped to the floor, and Dave army-crawled after it to see where it landed. EVENTUALLY, we got it trapped in our bedroom. Dave and Mark again suited up and went in to catch it. They had about 5 unsuccessful attempts, which involved a lot of yelling, "He's buzzing the tower" and "Just whack it with the manilla envelope" before finally catching it. Needless to say, catching a bat was NOTHING like the video portrayed! And the good news for us is that the bat tested negative for rabies, bad news for the bat is that he didn't get to live to tell the story.
3 comments:
hahahah your story made me laugh but I am glad you caught the bat!!!!! I have stories similar to that but it's with cockroaches, I hate them!!!
Before we were married I lived in our apartment for a couple of weeks alone and one morning I woke up to a loud chirping sound and I realized there was a bird flying around my bedroom. I called Alan, it was like 6 am or something and made him come over to get it out, he was less than amused but he laughed at me afterward, it is kind of a freaky experience to be woken up by something flying around you.
That is really funny. We had a bat in our bed&breakfast on our honeymoon- but it wasn't as exciting as your story. Glad you made it out without getting hurt :)
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