It was near 8 pm and I walked into the living room and immediately I knew something was wrong. It seems my Danny bird was flying around in little circles....wait....I look over to the cage and Danny is in the cage and Bailee is in the playpen...they are extremely quiet. I look at this bird now flying in my living room around in circles and as my eyes adjust more I see it is not a bird but a...BAT!! My panic mode goes on but I remain pretty calm. I go into the bathroom and get a towel. I try to shoo it to the back room so I can open the window and let it out but this BAT is having none of that. He keeps flying around my living room in circles, now big circles and then flying around the dining room and back into the living room. The bird cage is open and I am worried my bird is going to fly out and join him but Danny remains very quiet and still. Meanwhile I am sort of like dancing with this BAT in my living room following it around with a towel...not hitting him but motioning to him...like he knows what I mean...but he just keeps flying around my living room..Suzy is just looking up at him with her big brown eyes. Now I know I can't let this bat live here so I have to get him out..so I opened up the front window in the living room and the BAT doesn't get it and just keeps flying around in circles in the living room and dining room..until he flies into the kitchen...now to get to the kitchen and close him in there...I got there in time and closed him in the kitchen! So then I call the managers and tell them something really weird just happened and that I have a BAT in my apartment..they come over and sneak into the kitchen with a large cloth...I told them it was a baby BAT ...well they came out with it inside the cloth and said it was not a baby bat but a full grown one and were smiling and they took him outside and let him go. So I had a little visitor tonight...scared the heck out of me!
OMG What a Surprise/Shock I had Tonight!
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No SB, sorry for the confusion of my post, I've corrected it. It was a full grown bat according to them. They were smiling because the bat was just hanging from the kitchen vent and they gently put the cloth around it. They were glad it didn't give them a hard time and they are animal lovers and they were real gentle with it and let it go once outside.
I am still freaked out however!! One glass of wine has been sitting in the bottle on my sink since last week and I think I am going to have it tonight. All I can say is YIKES!!!!
I am still freaked out however!! One glass of wine has been sitting in the bottle on my sink since last week and I think I am going to have it tonight. All I can say is YIKES!!!!
Don M.
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I've had a similar thing happen a couple of times. I used to go out into my workshop at night, throw the doors open and work on some project. I've got a yard light over the main garage door, and with the interior lights on, it wouldn't be long before there were a couple of bats swooping around inside. The only way to get them out would be to shut off the interior lights, until they flew back outdoors, then quickly shut the doors. Now, if I go out there at night, I leave the big door shut, and turn on the lights Only after I'm inside with the side door shut, also. The bats do a great job of getting the insects the lights attract, but I don't need one buzzing around inside.
Ruth n Jersey
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What an evening you had! So glad they captured the poor thing . It was probably more scared than you were.
I had one in an apartment I once lived in. Must have snuck in when I opened a door. It finally hung upside down over a doorway. Propped the door open, took a broom to knock it down and he flew out. The bat was probably as afraid as I was.
It is a little frightening, glad you had someone to call. How did it get in, do you know? They are around everywhere, we just don't see them because they are nocturnal. They actually do good by eating a lot of mosquitos and other bugs.
It is a little frightening, glad you had someone to call. How did it get in, do you know? They are around everywhere, we just don't see them because they are nocturnal. They actually do good by eating a lot of mosquitos and other bugs.
Yeah, it was probably scared but not sure if it was more scared than me. lol. I don't know how it got in. The manager seems to think that it snuck in while I was smoking with my head out the back window. I open the screen when I smoke cigars out the back window. I didn't see it come in, though. I thought it may have come in through the AC but the manager said the vents are too small for that.
I had a bat in my house once, too. Pretty sure mine fell down through the chimney and then came out the fireplace upstairs. I had to put a waste basket over the bat, then slip a piece of cardboard under it. Also had 2 birds come down through the exhaust vent above the stove in an apartment once---two different occasions. Check for some fan vent (bathroom, kitchen) that's not covered properly.
I checked the kitchen vent and he could not have come in there and I am on the first floor, there are 2 floors above me. There is no bathroom fan vent.
A squirrel would have scared me, too. lol
fureverywhere
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Oh darlin' <<<hugs>>> By the grace of something we still had animal control. A bat flying in our bedroom at 11pm. The officer came in with a big net. She knew hubby from school, as she walked the steps she said "You have a pack of cats and pit bulls...now a bat in the bedroom Jesu Grist". Now we would have to catch it ourselves.
:highly_amused:Thanks. I think I discovered where it came in. I had the window open all last night and I just checked the screen and it is not attached on the side! It needs redoing. Also looked at the outside place where the AC goes out to and there is an opening there, too!! The bat may have come in when I had the window open all last night and hid somewhere and came out when it turned dark in here. I am going to show the manager both of those things soon.
Butterfly
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I've never seen any bats around here. I know they have zillions of them down in Carlsbad, though. I wouldn't deal very well with a bat in the house.
IKE
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I'll bet that was a scary experience Ruth but count yourself as being lucky that it wasn't a 'fruit bat'. 
On one of my last overseas positions back in the early 80's I was working on a small island in Indonesia and we were on a night security patrol in really dark, thick and overgrown jungle and the only time that you can actually look up and see the night sky is when there is a small brake in the canopy.
Anyway, I happened to look up and I saw these REALLY HUGE bats flying over our heads at tree top level and even tho I was armed for a moment it kinda spooked me and I thought we were in Transylvania. I ask my Indonesian counterpart what they were and he said they were 'fruit bats' which can grow to have a 5' wingspan and weigh as much as 3 pounds.
I discovered the next day that because of their diet that they are also quite tasty when roasted whole or cut up and stir fried with ginger, soy sauce and other local ingredients.
On one of my last overseas positions back in the early 80's I was working on a small island in Indonesia and we were on a night security patrol in really dark, thick and overgrown jungle and the only time that you can actually look up and see the night sky is when there is a small brake in the canopy.
Anyway, I happened to look up and I saw these REALLY HUGE bats flying over our heads at tree top level and even tho I was armed for a moment it kinda spooked me and I thought we were in Transylvania
. I ask my Indonesian counterpart what they were and he said they were 'fruit bats' which can grow to have a 5' wingspan and weigh as much as 3 pounds.I discovered the next day that because of their diet that they are also quite tasty when roasted whole or cut up and stir fried with ginger, soy sauce and other local ingredients.
LOL. It was my first bat experience!
I don't know that I was ready for that really. LOL. Took me a little while to realize it was a bat.You kept your composure really well. I've run into bats outdoors at night but never inside. I'm not ready for that. LoL.
You never know till it happens as to how you will deal with it. Sometimes we just wing it! lol
This bat was about a foot across total with wingspan. I think if it had been 5 foot wingspan I may have ran from my apt. but I wanted to protect my pets, too. If I knew what it was I was eating don't think I could eat one. Now if I didn't know maybe...I'll bet that was a scary experience Ruth but count yourself as being lucky that it wasn't a 'fruit bat'.
On one of my last overseas positions back in the early 80's I was working on a small island in Indonesia and we were on a night security patrol in really dark, thick and overgrown jungle and the only time that you can actually look up and see the night sky is when there is a small brake in the canopy.
Anyway, I happened to look up and I saw these REALLY HUGE bats flying over our heads at tree top level and even tho I was armed for a moment it kinda spooked me and I thought we were in Transylvania
I discovered the next day that because of their diet that they are also quite tasty when roasted whole or cut up and stir fried with ginger, soy sauce and other local ingredients.
Yes, it is good for one's health and I drank 1 glass last night.
We had been in the house in NJ a few weeks. We were watching a spooky movie on TV with only a small light on. There was a rustling noise in the fireplace and a bat flew out and was circling the room. My wife vanished instantly. I opened the front door and as he flew past it I swatted him with a pillow knocking him outside. I quickly shut the door and turned on the porch light. The bat was laying on the step, but when I looked a few minutes later he was gone. The next day I was on the roof installing mesh on top of the chimney.
Bats outside are good because they eat bugs, inside not so good.
Bats outside are good because they eat bugs, inside not so good.
I see your wife disappeared right away! Wish I could have done that. lol. I had thought about opening up the front door and letting it out into the hall but then I had to think about the safety of my neighbors. I live in an apartment complex and there are 2 other apartments on my floor. Glad you were able to get the bat out, too.
Knightofalbion
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Glad to hear they were gentle with it and released it safely and unharmed outside.
I have bats here - though not in the house! Really quite beautiful to watch their aerial 'ballet'.
I have bats here - though not in the house! Really quite beautiful to watch their aerial 'ballet'.
fureverywhere
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The noise that rattled me one night was in the dining room. There is an area that is patched cosmetically but not sturdy or solid. One night I heard skittering. Heavier than a squirrel but not as loud as a raccoon. Whatever it was ran around up there a few hours and disappeared. If it fell into a crawlspace the smell would have been horrendous...but I was afraid it would fall through the ceiling patch...then between the cats and dogs I'd have a big mess to clean up.
Yes, I did watch it fly around the place and it sure did do a ballet of sorts.
What was it Fur?