My damn cat just caught a bat

nadams

In the house.

This is the second time since I moved in. I can't figure out where they're coming from, but she finds them and at least knocks them to the ground. The damn thing is still in the house, but I have it caught and am just waiting for it to calm down (read - die) before I throw it outside and run away like a little girl. The cat is currently residing in the bathroom.

She doesn't kill them, just knocks them down and pisses them off.

nadams

Did I mention that I was quite well asleep until the shrieking started?

nadams

The bat has been evicted, quite still alive. I heard it hit the ground when I threw it out the window, so there's a good possibility the cat injured it. There's also a good possibility the ****'s okay.

I let the cat out of the bathroom... she seemed rather disinterested in the whole episode.

I've degermified my hands, and can now go back to sucking my thumb and dreaming of vampires. Damn that thing had one hell of a set of teeth on it.

danger boy

keep some garlic and Holy water next to your bed for the next few nights at least just in case

cats are great though for vermits like that and the creepy crawly ones too. My cat loves spiders.

mrbigbluelight

Nadams, you do realize that your cat is knocking those bats down because it's afraid that those bats are going to blow its cover ?

If I were you, I'd sleep with one eye open because ......

Your Cat Does !!

:eek:

danger boy

If you wake up and look in the mirror and look like this.... just think of all the money you could make off the tabloids :eek:

Face

My brother had one land on his leg once. They're ugly close up.

dorokusai

You sure that wasn't F1Nut?

I'm manly but a bat landing on my leg would freak me the F out.

bobman1235

I'm not manly at all and would most likely pee myself.

agfrost

I understand the "run away like a little girl" thing. Here's a snap of the first tenant in our new bedroom. Just standing in the same room with it as it swooped around made my skin crawl.

Could've used your cat!

Jay

skipf

Bats are good critters. Just throw a towel over them and release outside. Take care not to let them bite you as some do carry rabies. They keep the bug population in check. You can even buy them custom houses so they stay comfortable. They are probably getting in your house through an eave vent, ridge vent, or gable end vent. They can squeeze through a tiny crack you wouldn't believe they could fit through.

All that said, if they really creep you out, a tennis racquet is lots of fun as bat control. Just be sure you don't whack 'em too hard or You'll have a mess to clean off the walls (don't ask how I know that).

Fireman32

Well I hope Jesse is ok after you threw him out the window.:eek::D

cfrizz

Did you check your cat to make sure she didn't get bit? And is she updated on her rabies & other shots?

SCompRacer

This cat is in training to be a better batter.

venomclan

My cat in NY used to bring home dead bats all the time, they were huge. They will not hurt you unless you threaten them. The rabies thing is the biggest fear. Bats cannot see very well and use their sonar shrieks to navigate. Try to find where they are entering the house and plug it. Great Stuff expanding foam may help fill the gaps.
Venom

rskarvan

Bats are rats with wings.

I see them flying around street lights. Birds flap their wings with a constant beat.
Bats go: flap, flap, flap.... soar... flap, flap, flap....soar <repeat>. Bats aren't nearly as well-suited for flight as birds.

I work in the middle of a very large factory. Every once in a while, a bat will soar by and I wonder if they have the sense to get back outside. The food sources (for a bat) have got be scarce inside.

ohskigod

hey, is that cat always limited to the bathroom, or dies it roam around the house. if it roams, Im surprised a bat is ballsey enough to come into the house. if the cat is limited to the bathroom, let it have run of the house. yes, a c at all through the house might be a PITA, but the chances of you having mice...and BATS should decrease.

me having 4 cats can be a PITA at times, butI could smear my walls with easy cheese and probably never get a mouse.....or at least that little **** aint gonna last long.

cat ownership does have the perks.

nadams

The cat is fine... and the bat wasn't sitting on the sidewalk when I left this morning, so it must've wandered off. And Lou, the cat has the run of the house, I only put her in the bathroom while I was disposing of the bat so that she wouldn't cause any more trouble. I do have to wonder how she does it, though. And where it came from... I've got lots of open spaces for it to get into somewhere like the attic, but there's no way that I can see for it to get down from the attic.

It might've possibly come through a small gap in an ill-fitting window upstairs.... which is even more creepy since it was found downstairs. Damn thing was a traveling bat.

dorokusai

I was hearing bats all last night, thanks Noah.

Ron-P

I remember camping out in Panament Valley, laying in the open bed of my truck and having bats (lot's of them) swooping down to within inches of my face. It was creepy.

RuSsMaN

I like to spread guano on my toast.

AndyGwis

Austin, where I went to college, has a very ample bat population. Sometimes you'll drive by a tree and wonder why the birds in it look kind of funny. . . then you realize they are all bats.

Tennis racks and bats reminds me of the Great Outdoors (Akroyd and Candy. . . rip) and/or Black Sheep (Spade and Farley. . . rip).

nms

Have any of you done the trick where you throw a pebble up in the air near a bat and watch them go after it? It's pretty funny.

ohskigod

nadams wrote: »

The cat is fine... and the bat wasn't sitting on the sidewalk when I left this morning, so it must've wandered off. And Lou, the cat has the run of the house, I only put her in the bathroom while I was disposing of the bat so that she wouldn't cause any more trouble. I do have to wonder how she does it, though. And where it came from... I've got lots of open spaces for it to get into somewhere like the attic, but there's no way that I can see for it to get down from the attic.

It might've possibly come through a small gap in an ill-fitting window upstairs.... which is even more creepy since it was found downstairs. Damn thing was a traveling bat.

that's a ballsy bat!!!! normally the scent/presence of a cat keeps critters away, may bats dont smell?

use the great stuff gap filler, or caulk on the gap in the window. good to do in any case, be it where the bat came in or not.

cats will always go for animals in reach, I had a cat somehow kill a bird and leave it for me at my front door INSIDE THE HOUSE. somehow, this indoor cat got a bird outside and brought it inside. when the cat leaves it for you, its there way of giving you a gift believe it or not, like there providing for the house or some duch silliness.

cats, gotta love em, and occasionally hate em

cfrizz

The problem with them "leaving" you the gift Lou, is they don't expect for you to TAKE IT!

Once Tami realized that I would take HER toy, she wouldn't let me get anywhere near it. I would have to fight her to get it away. Most times I won the battle. Other times I would come home to pick up what was left of the mouse in different parts of the house!

ND13

I had a male tabby that the wife and I rescued from downtown Nashville. It was about 5 years old when we got him and was effin huge, close to 30lbs, when we first got him. After de-worming and a steady diet of Science diet, he lost about 10 lbs, but still a huge alpha male, til snip time anyways:(. He was an indoor/outdoor cat and brought creatures of all sorts to our doorstep almost daily. Lou's right, that's their way of giving back to their provider.

We have two cats today. Our old girl, Scout, is 14 years old in January and the new boy on the block, Tiggy, is 5 months old. He's been with us for about a month now, and is a great kitten. Scout is finally gettin used to him getting some of her luvins. Cats can get very jealous. It's been a long time since we've had a kitten...they're a blast..........until they attack your toe in the middle of the night, while you're in the middle of your slumber.

cruzer

AndyGwis wrote: »

Austin, where I went to college, has a very ample bat population. Sometimes you'll drive by a tree and wonder why the birds in it look kind of funny. . . then you realize they are all bats.

Tennis racks and bats reminds me of the Great Outdoors (Akroyd and Candy. . . rip) and/or Black Sheep (Spade and Farley. . . rip).

Ugh. Bugs would probably be awful without the bats here in Austin. Quite incredible to watch em come out at night.

Go to UT, Andy?

thejck

i had a friend of mine that moved into a house she rented with some other friends constanly find bats in the house. the landlord wound not do anything about it and she called a bat expert and he came by and looked around and told her that there here hundred of bats that live in old houses. they come in through small cracks like an inch wide next to windows chimneys and they live inside the walls and behind the siding.
it was pretty freaky but i wonder if the guy was telling the truth since he was trying to make a buck.

they moved out within a week.

bobman1235

AndyGwis wrote: »

Austin, where I went to college, has a very ample bat population. Sometimes you'll drive by a tree and wonder why the birds in it look kind of funny. . . then you realize they are all bats.

Tennis racks and bats reminds me of the Great Outdoors (Akroyd and Candy. . . rip) and/or Black Sheep (Spade and Farley. . . rip).

One of the times I was down in Austin I got to see all the bats coming out from under the Congress St bridge, it was wild.

Face

I had a girlfriend who lived out east on long island. At night, while relaxing in her pool, bats used to circle overhead all the time. They never came down and bothered us though. Too bad I didn't know about the pebble trick back then.

danger boy

SCompRacer wrote: »

This cat is in training to be a better batter.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! now that's funny!!