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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.
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I'd be more worried about how long he could last without.....blood. Posts: 7845 | From: Smiling and glancing in awe in the back of a limo | Registered: Mar 2003 | Site Updates: 22
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Don't feed it after midnight or get it wet ooops nah wrong mammal.......
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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You sneaky little devil... Posts: 2729 | From: Kansas City, MO "At the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance" | Registered: Apr 2007 | Site Updates: 9
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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.
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