WHAT TO DO IF A BAT GETS IN YOUR BEDROOM
With the World Series having just ended, please note that I am not telling you how to get rid of a Louisville Slugger; I am writing about the flying bats that make ticking sounds. On three occasions when we were living in Connecticut in a home surrounded by woods, my wife woke me in the middle of the night to say she heard a wooshing sound and ticking. The first time it happened we weren’t sure what caused what she heard. The 2nd and 3rd had no mystery. Let us return to the first time. We turned on the light and there he /or she was- a bat flying around the bedroom. Here is what you do. Get all warm-blooded things out of the room - kids, dogs, cats and in my case my wife. Close the door/doors. You then arm your self with a tennis racquet. I put on a Pith Helmet and a Thorn Proof jacket from the John Hardy collection. This next part is very important- you have to keep the bat flying around. You keep swinging at the bat with the racquet. You don’t have to worry about the bat flying into you- their sonar is better than anything on the most advanced nuclear sub. What does the bat “in” is the space between the strings of the racket. Before too long the bat’s sonar, by chance, goes through the space in the racket and he/she crashes into the racket, get stunned, and falls to the floor. A burial service followed the dispatchment. This is not anecdotal- I did it three times. After the first time my wife and 3 children called me “Batman” for two weeks. For those among you who feel a Thorn Proof jacket is too warm for summer “Batting”, may I suggest one of our silk bush jackets.
Tags: Bats, Bush Jacket, Thorn Proof Jacket
March 9th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
A word of warning. If you wake up and find a bat flying around in your bedroom, it is possible that you may have already been bitten and not even know it! A bat in the bedroom - as opposed to the belfry - is unusual, and such animals may be considered rabid. When this happened to me, my MD strongly recommended that I get vaccinated against rabies. Although the chances of infection are small under these conditions, remember that rabies is 100% fatal if you are unlucky enough to get it. I took his advice and got vaccinated pronto.