Bat

drizgirl

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Might be easier getting the ones that are causing a comotion to leave. The animal will settle and it will be much easier to deal with. It isn't going to attack you when it is flying it's just trying to get away from all the scary things it doesn't understand
I’m just going to assume you have not had a bat in your house. It is very possible to be bitten and have to undergo rabies shots if you don’t capture the bat.
 

JoeCamel

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I’m just going to assume you have not had a bat in your house. It is very possible to be bitten and have to undergo rabies shots if you don’t capture the bat.
I have worked with bats for over 50 years......

Ok, show of hands, who has had a bat in their house? now, who has been bitten and the bat was found to be rabid or you didn't get close enough to get bitten or you were bit and the bat wasn't sick just scared?
 

drizgirl

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I have worked with bats for over 50 years......

Ok, show of hands, who has had a bat in their house? now, who has been bitten and the bat was found to be rabid or you didn't get close enough to get bitten or you were bit and the bat wasn't sick just scared?
Been there done that. We have had a bat in our 100 year old house several times in the last 30 years.

I don’t need to be bitten to understand the risk.
 

some other guy

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maybe they're getting the immersive queue ready for when they get the Simpsons license back under their control
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mysto

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If you have bats in your house (or mice or rats or squirrels) you have to plug the hole they use to get in the house. If you don't find and plug that hole you will get them back. Once the hole is plugged if you have to kill some to get them out then I guess you do. I trap my mice alive and move them, trapping a bat is probably hard.

But just killing things with out trying to find and plug the entrance is a waste and does not solve the problem. I know it's hard to find the hole but you have to do it.
 

thomas998

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Bats are not a problem. They eat their weight in mosquitoes each night. They are only a problem if they are actually inside the buildings.


I would only really worry about them if they attack someone, because the only time they do that is if they have rabies.

But in a building they will create a huge problem. I worked in an office building where one of the tenants moved out and some windows were damaged. The floor went unleased for more than a year, but when our company attempted to lease it out for expansion we quickly found that the amount of guano in some of the rooms of that floor was insane. The building owner had to bring in specialist to get rid of all the bats and deal with the guano.
 

some other guy

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I would only really worry about them if they attack someone, because the only time they do that is if they have rabies.

But in a building they will create a huge problem. I worked in an office building where one of the tenants moved out and some windows were damaged. The floor went unleased for more than a year, but when our company attempted to lease it out for expansion we quickly found that the amount of guano in some of the rooms of that floor was insane. The building owner had to bring in specialist to get rid of all the bats and deal with the guano.
yeah in Florida you need all the help you can get when it comes to fighting bugs
but bats don't have any cute little bat toilets to flush they just kinda do their thing
and that becomes a big health issue in enclosed spaces really quick
 

esskay

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Oh god thats just unlocked a memory. Sitting out near fairfax fair and there was a drain under our table and I felt something crawl across my foot - it was a roach. Also had one invite itself into our room at OKW a couple of years ago.
 

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