Visitor this morning

steveinaz
steveinaz Posts: 19,538
edited March 2012 in The Clubhouse
I have a bat sleeping just above my monitor here at work this morning. This is pretty common when we get these cold snaps in the weather. He's not at all bothered by our presence. It's cold out (29 right now), so I'll let him sleep until it gets in the 50's this afternoon, then I'll take him outside.

http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/bat_conserv_az_bats.shtml
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2012
    I have one word for that....


    RAID


    I hate anything that moves.

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    He looks like a puppy with creepy wings....LOL
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited March 2012
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    I have one word for that....


    RAID


    I hate anything that moves.

    You're a terrible, terrible man. :razz:


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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    They're pretty lethargic when sleepy. Last time we had one in the office, I coaxed him onto a broom and took him outside. He remained on the broom for like 3 hrs before finally flying off. They're helpless when on the ground, so you have to put them up on something so predators don't get them.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited March 2012
    You best call BILLY THE EXTERMINATOR!!!!!!!!! lol...
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited March 2012
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I have a bat sleeping just above my monitor here at work this morning.

    Shouldn't you be working and not on CP? :razz:

    Yes... I had to say it.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    It's a slow day (yesterday too). Spring/Summer are typically slow for us because of the buying patterns of the command--as you might imagine, uncle sugar is broke this year. I usually average around $7-8 million in inventory, we're currently at about $4.5 million.

    I can sweep the warehouse floor today, if that'll make you feel better? LOL
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,008
    edited March 2012
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    I have one word for that....


    RAID




    I hate anything that moves.


    Does that include Canadian Polkies picking up their speaker? I'm in trouble !!!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2012
    Aren't bats protected species in most states? They are in Maine. You're not allowed to off them. In fact, we have a guy up here that's on call to help you purge them from your house who is called the Batman! A legendary fellow who knows bats well! lol But true!

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    Bats are a great thing to have around, especially in mosquito heavy environments. I believe the "nearly noseless" bats in Az are protected, as they feed exclusively on agave blooms--which is why certain varieties of agave are protected as well. We have a number of protected rattlesnake species as well. I've had both a pygmy rattler and a diamondback at 2 of my houses. Both were captured an released without incident. One of them was quite docile, as I kept him from going into our backyard (we had dogs) with a broom, and he never rattled or attempted to strike at me. Range control came out and captured/released him in the mountains.

    One specie of bat we get, clean out our hummingbird feeders in July/August time frame. I actually attempted to video it once, but the camera didn't do well in low light. There had to be at least 30 bats swarming the 2 feeders for like 2 hrs. They were not at all bothered by us being on the patio.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2012
    Willow wrote: »
    Does that include Canadian Polkies picking up their speaker? I'm in trouble !!!


    Shoot Gun for you :wink:

    Note I feel the wink thing is a bit creepy. IMHO

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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited March 2012
    Tennis rackets work excellent on bats. And not just to off them. You can trap a bat between two tennis rackets and then move them outside to roam free.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,008
    edited March 2012
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Note I feel the wink thing is a bit creepy. IMHO

    Only if it were coming from Doro in his chaps!
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2012
    LOL :smile:

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,511
    edited March 2012
    From Dusk Till Dawn
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited March 2012
    I used to run a call center that had a enormous calling floor, one day a bat decided that it would swoop everyone on the floor. One of my employees swung a yard stick and split that ****' in half! Blood and guts everywhere, not the approach I was going to take, but he certainly Babe Ruth'd that stinker.
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  • Tankman
    Tankman Posts: 419
    edited March 2012
    F1nut wrote: »
    From Dusk Till Dawn
    ..Lolo!!!Yep i was thinking the same thing!..lolo.
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited March 2012
    Wish I had bats around my house. Instead I have mosquitoes, and lots of them. This year will probably be even worse because of the mild winter. Going to put up a bat house and see if I can get any takers.

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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited March 2012
    steveinaz wrote: »
    It's a slow day (yesterday too). Spring/Summer are typically slow for us because of the buying patterns of the command--as you might imagine, uncle sugar is broke this year. I usually average around $7-8 million in inventory, we're currently at about $4.5 million.

    I can sweep the warehouse floor today, if that'll make you feel better? LOL

    heh, I think you missed where the humor in my statement came from...
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  • apc
    apc Posts: 779
    edited March 2012
    My wife would go ape $&!#. I want a bat house for the yard to encourage them (to eat insects), but she is creeped out.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    Drenis wrote: »
    heh, I think you missed where the humor in my statement came from...

    Nah, I got it...:)
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    Well, it's 1:20pm local az time, BATman is still in the same spot. It's about 48 outside now, so probably in about an hour we'll do the catch and release. Poor little feller looks cozy though...but we got to get him outdoors to feed.
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  • bmbguy
    bmbguy Posts: 416
    edited March 2012
    Free Willy!
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited March 2012
    Most of the bats we see out of their domain are rabid. Bad juju to play with them.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    Elvis has left the building.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited March 2012
    I don't know where they go this time of year (besides above your monitor), but I'm always happy to see the little buggers during mosquito season.

    It's pretty cool watching them during monsoon season come in low over the pool at dusk.
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited March 2012
    Bats are cool ....Everyday occurence at the Congress street bridge here in Austin , ppl gather to watch thousands leave at dusk to feed for the night

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,716
    edited March 2012
    F1nut wrote: »
    From Dusk Till Dawn

    Great ..... now I'm going to be derailed for a couple of days thinking about some of the cast of DTD ......


    from dusk till dawn Salma.jpg



    To stay on topic, I do think she's hiding a bat in there somewhere.
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  • Vuroth
    Vuroth Posts: 16
    edited March 2012
    Bats are like spiders - not the nicest things to look at per se, but they do good work.
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  • teekay0007
    teekay0007 Posts: 2,289
    edited March 2012
    In the E.R., exposure (eg. skin contact) to bats qualifies as having been bitten by a bat. From there, it's necessary to have a series of shots for rabies prevention. Bats have very fine teeth, fine to the point of a bite not even always being evident to a person once bitten. This very quick skin piercing is all that is needed to possibly transmit the rabies virus to a human.

    A few years ago in our state (MN), there was a man in his 30s or 40s who died as a result of rabies from a bat bite. He was cleaning out his family's lake cabin in the spring and a bat was inside, attached to the ceiling in one of the basement rooms. He tried to get it out of the cabin by pressing it against the end of a broom and walking it outside where he could release it. While in transit, the bat got loose and started to fly and the man swatted at it with his bare arm. He then directed it out the door using the end of the broom. Hitting the bat with that swat was all that was necessary to transmit the rabies virus infection. A couple of months later, he started having some non-specific neuro symptoms and within a couple of weeks he was dead - the final diagnosis was made at autopsy. Only after having been questioned several times by a perplexed medical team did he recall the incident with the bat. He said that he remembered brushing away two tiny dried dots of blood from his forearm after the event and that he hadn't thought of it again since.

    NOTE: Being infected with rabies virus can be considered to be very close to 100% fatal! In ALL documented human rabies cases in the U.S., there have only been THREE people to survive! The first was in a teenage girl - around 2004 or 2005 - who was put into a medically induced coma and spent more than a couple of months in the hospital.

    Rabies does have a relatively long incubation period, lasting from a couple of weeks to more than a year. And unlike most diseases that have vaccinations available, rabies can be vaccinated against after exposure. In fact, the vaccine is considered to be nearly 100% effective if started within the first 10 days.

    The CDC actually recommends having post-exposure prophylaxis (typically a 5-shot series) for any person that may have been "unaware" that they were in the presence of a bat for any length of time - eg. a child sleeping in a room where a bat, or bats, are found. This group would also include people inebriated, or unconscious for any reason, in the same setting.

    Anyway.....that's all I got to say about that.
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