I saved a bat yesterday.

Bats should be asleep right now, hibernating.
It sounds like you found a 'white nose' victim .

I didn't notice any discoloration on or around the nose, but I did wonder about that.

Last Edited by KwittyKwitty on 12/13/2010 04:12 PM

Well, those things can carry rabies...

do you help my mother in law...

you can even have open spaces in a cube wall for some effects.

I think it takes a sick person to actually construct a device to torture or kill an animal AND to get off on it! Shame on you!

Okay many years ago I was walking to work, I was still on my block, passing an old apartment building (2000 block of Garfield Ave So for my Minneapolis friends here); there was a bat on the newly shoveled sidewalk in front of the door.

The morning was very cold, it was around zero F or below. I saw the poor bat was still breathing, so I took my knit hat off and picked him up, put him in my hat and carried him inside the front of my coat to work.

Once there I put the hat down inside a paper bag, before I closed it I looked in and could see him baring his teeth and hissing up at me lol.

He scrabbled and scrambled inside the bag for a lot of the day, which was reassuring since he was lively and not dying. This really grossed out my coworker who was phobic of bats.

After work we drove him to the University of Minnesota Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic, the girl took him out of the bag with a gloved hand and we got to look closely at his face, which was like a cross between a monkey and a fox, with incredibly detailed features.

She fed him a mealworm which he ate enthusiastically. Oh, and when she took him out of the bag, her colleague there was jealous and said "you get all the bats!" lol. They had just been operating on the leg of a swan when we came in.

They said they would test him out to make sure he could fly in a special bat flying room they had, and then put him in a refrigerator with other bats until they could take them to a cave to release them.

Months later I got a note saying he had been successfully released to the special bat cave somewhere in the country.

:litekitteh:

lite kitteh is pleased with your kindness.

Kudos, and karma is a good thing!

no i never did those things.

it was for shaun and palls and those black haired blood drinkers with a advanced airplane.

+1 x2 !!

Everyone should put up a few bat houses. They keep the mosquitoes under control and their droppings are really good for your houseplants.

Wow! YOU did a great thing! I wish I'd had the presence of mind to do what you did back then. Thanks for sharing your story.

probably too hungry for hibernating
that's how white nose kills
could have been rabid
they really should be hibernating
maybe it's spot got flooded or snowed in somehow
good to see animal love here

Great story OP

Every once in a while I see a couple of bats sleeping under the eaves of our house. They are very small and I think cute. Wish we had more but we are in a residential area and they don't hang out a lot.

PS Thanks for saving the Bat...good job.

OP if you hear chirping next summer in the evenings that is you bat come to pay a visit.

I also saved one once he stayed in the tree outside my sons window for months.

Yup, between them and the chickens I got bit maybe twice this year.

Awwwwww!!!!!

It's still cold out, do you understand?

Yes, but I did the best thing I knew to do at the time.

Yes, but I did the best thing I knew to do at the time.

They say that it wakes the bats up out of hibernation early, and they leave, searching for food...and they die, because of the cold, and no bugs out.
I'm concerned about the bats....
Even without the discoloration, your lil guy could have still been a victim of it, just hadn't progressed to the stage where it's visable yet.
I have a great love for bats...it's so sad that this is happening to them... :(