And we can't find it.....Last night it was in my mom's room, and she came to get us, and when my husband went to go catch it, it was no where to be found. It must have got out of the attic yesterday- when I was putting all the Valentine decorations away...and I made a billion trips up and down the steps. I have guests coming tonight and tomorrow night, so I hope it doesn't come out tonight, and scare any one. I am hoping because they are suppose to still be hibernating right now, that it crawled in somewhere to take a nap, and we'll find it down the road. ICK! I am not crazy about bats.
Once I was in the attic, and one hit me right in the side of my cheek, and scared the heck out of me...I took off out of there, and got the creeps from the whole thing.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Better call someone to get it out. They carry rabies and will bite when you are sleeping. Don't mean to scare you, but you should know.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
It wouldn't be a problem if it was Halloween!
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Fright Night?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Once Bitten?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
My Best Friend Is a Vampire?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Love at First Bite?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
The Lost Boys?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Vamp?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Near Dark?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
The Hunger?
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
If its a bat out of hell, it'll be gone when the morning comes...
bats can be annoying, hope it finds a way out.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Vampire's Kiss?
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The Monster Squad?
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Transylvania 6-5000?
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I'm thinkin a thick wool scarf...case he goes for your neck.....hockey helmet with cage face mask....football shoulder pads....bowling shoes...and a tennis racket....go in there and get that fellow ISIS...what ya waitin for?
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I have been looking for him, all over the place...in my ficus trees, and behind all my curtains, and he hasn't popped up yet.
I have a net that we use for our pond, and I plan to catch him with it. Bats are good for the environment, and they are protected. I kind of am getting use to them....they're everywhere in the summer. When I first came here, it freaked me out. There's at least 2 that live behind 2 shutters- 1 on my balcony and 1 on my front porch.
Thanks 80srocked for freaking me out....I didn't sleep well last night.
Valley- Your a Goof!
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by ISIS: Thanks 80srocked for freaking me out....I didn't sleep well last night.
Sorry, just trying to help. I wouldn't sleep well until it was gone myself.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Party all night and sleep all day. It's fun to be a vampire!
Last bat I dealt with had a head that looked just like Count Chocula.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Does it look like this?
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
80'sRocked, how did you get a picture of my sister in law?
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
It could be a curse for saying bad things about The Dark Knight lol j/k. My grandmother had a bat come into her house thru the chimney. She had to end up calling pest control........
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I have had them get in my house before, but we get them out of here immediately- not knowing where it is- because it hasn't showed up yet...is creepy- but you'll all be the first to know when it does...well- maybe the 2nd.
Look at those teeth in that picture! Cripes, scare me some more!
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
My favorite vampire is "The Count" from Sesame Street.
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Do you think it's possible he got out without you realizing it?
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
No....He was in my mom's room, and she saw him flying back in forth in front of the TV screen, she wasn't sure what it was at first, then it started circling her bed....so she came running for my husband and I, and my husband went down to find it (I shut my bedroom door- and hid under the covers)...my mom left her bedroom door hanging open (instead of shutting it and letting it in there)....so it got out in to the house, and they couldn't find it....there's 14 rooms in my house, so it could be anywhere...my son thinks it could have gone up our fireplace chimney. I know it didn't go out the front door.
So, it's around.
I wonder how long they could last without water.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
I'd be more worried about how long he could last without.....blood. Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
Am I the only one that read "There's a bat in my house" and thought of Hollywood Shuffle???
WE are DEVO
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Don't feed it after midnight or get it wet ooops nah wrong mammal.......
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
You do know that blood drinking bats are only found from Mexico and south right? They are not indigenous to the United States. You have a common fruit bat in your house... They are really quite good for keeping the bug population down... heheee.
[ 23. February 2009, 13:29: Message edited by: jdocster ]
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
So....JDoc-do I wave a banana around and have it chase me out the door?
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
heheheeee... I'd pay to see that...
You should call a pest removal business. They will trap it and take it away. You will need to figure out where it got into your house and seal it up or you'll have more visitors... I had to do this with my moms house. She had squirrels... Had to install heavy chicken wire in the roof fan to fix hers.
Seriously though, I would pay to see you wave a banana around and have it chase you. Just remember to do it after dark. They are night feeders...
Dress up like this first: Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Oh my gosh, my friend did dress up in almost that exact outfit-last year at Halloween, she was just here...she looked just like that.
I know where it came from, it came out of the attic, when I was carrying up 10 million boxes of Valentine's Day decorations.
It has not shown up yet.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Where I live, we have to seal up every little hole in our houses to stop dipfanged possums from getting in. Those little buggers are awful, they're hard to catch and god help you if they bite you. They have venomous fangs and you can end up paralysed if you don't get immediate help.
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by Devolution: Devolution here,
Am I the only one that read "There's a bat in my house" and thought of Hollywood Shuffle???
WE are DEVO
LOL what a great and yet underrated movie that is.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stitch Groover: Where I live, we have to seal up every little hole in our houses to stop dipfanged possums from getting in. Those little buggers are awful, they're hard to catch and god help you if they bite you. They have venomous fangs and you can end up paralysed if you don't get immediate help.
Stich,
What is a dipfanged possum? I can't find it on the internet...
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I was wondering the same thing.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Hehe, I just wanted to see who would believe it. There's no such thing as a dipfanged possum, I just thought it was a funny sounding name!
The most dangerous thing most of us have to look out for is the spiders. White tailed spiders, redback spiders, funnelwebs, black widows....
The redback is deadly but all hospital carry the antivenom. The white tail is very dangerous, it's not deadly but can cause intense pain, melting flesh and scars similar to acid burns. Luckily we don't have funnelwebs and black widows where I am, they are mostly up around Sydney.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
You sneaky little devil... Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
We got the bat last night. It was so weird, we had a couple staying at the B & B, and we were talking to them, they were looking through my movie collection-the guy is a huge horror movie fan, and he said...I never heard of any of these movies, he wanted to watch all my movies...he said nothing scares him...he's talking today's movies...I said...that's cause your desensitized to all of it. He said he thought I was right, because he read a book about serial killers, and was scared out of his mind for weeks- because that was real life stuff. I said the older movies, are better because they seem more like something that could actually happen. Anyway, he thought our house was so cool, cause it reminded him of something out of a scary movie, but it doesn't look creepy...but you get that feel here that things have happened before. So, we said let us know if you experience anything weird, and I told them there is a bat in our house somewhere...but they didn't seem to be scared...but my son said that he thinks my mom hallucinated the whole thing and that she's getting senile and there's no bat. I actually had forgotten all about the bat.
Anyway, I usually don't go out in to the rest of the house, when there are guests here, we stay in an addition that we had built on, and it's where my mom is. Well, I wanted to go get my camera to show my mom a picture I had taken of this couple with our dog, because it was a cute picture....and I thought I'll run out and get the camera in my pajamas, and run back to the room, well I opened the door, and there was the bat...flying in to the kitchen. I shut the door, and sent my husband to go catch it.
He didn't believe me at first, then he opened the door, and said Oh sh--. I could hear him out there trying to catch it, and my mom said do you think you should go help him, and I said no way. He caught it with the pool net that we use to get leaves out of our pond. And he had it on the kitchen floor, but didn't know how to scoop it up, to get it out from the net, because the net was flat.
So, we all went out to look at it...it was pretty big....it was making some screeching noises and showing it's teeth. My husband and my mom, took a piece of cardboard, and slid that under the net, and then kept the net over it, and took it outside. My husband is actually starting to kind of like them...they are so weird looking. Our dog looks like a giant bat. So, maybe that's why.
But, it's out of here. Yesterday it was so warm out, I saw a bat flying around under our front porch...so maybe they thawed out enough to come out looking for a late night snack.
So....at least that is a good thing, and I don't have to worry about it running in to any guests.
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
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