It's not the greatest picture ever taken in the history of man-kind, but that blurry thing inside the plastic container is a small cute bat being very angry at being caught. The rock face is the fireplace in the kids playroom.You can kind of see the mouth and the three-inch-long fangs bared, ready to spill the blood of its captors. What you cannot hear is the furious roaring of its mighty mouth, but if you mentally visualize the old MGM Lion, you can kind of imagine what it didn't sound like.
I have no idea how it actually got into our house, but with a graceful flick of the red construction paper, I got it just barely out the door, and it flew away.
Bye bye, little bat.
hmmm...
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ReplyDeleteThe new mascot for 3.0? ;-)
ReplyDeletenice =) little Bat
ReplyDeleteHow did you put it inside the box?
ReplyDeleteLinus,
ReplyDeleteCheck with your local animal control, I believe they will recommend rabies shots for the family. Not kidding. Rabies is pretty common in the bat population in the U.S.
Second what Doug said, you really need to check with animal control. A bat in the house is serious.
ReplyDeleteIt looks cute! Maybe it's not clean, though...
ReplyDeleteWow Linus. dissecate it and keep it as a mascot on your desk :D (Anditosan)
ReplyDeleteBat is a clean animal. You are lucky because it cannot live where air is polluted.
ReplyDeleteSo Batman finally attacked the Penguin...
ReplyDeleteI had to do that a couple months ago. My father in law was despondent that I didn't kill the poor thing and kept saying "Well, don't say I didn't tell you. You didn't kill it, now it's as if you've sent an open invitation, you'll have a bunch of those living under your roof in no time at all".
ReplyDeleteNo need to say it didn't happen at all!
LOL! How big was it?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worried about rabbies unless you touched it, it bit you, or it pooped in your house. lol. You breath the air they fly in, and haven't gotten rabbies yet!
Doug/Amblin: nobody touched the bat, and it certainly didn't bite anybody (unless it was really sneaky and flew around undetected with its fangs dripping blood the night before).
ReplyDeleteIt also flew around inside and appeared perfectly healthy, so it wasn't even a case of some sick bat that was lying on the ground etc.
The Canadian CDC equivalent stopped recommending rabies vaccination last year unless there was "obvious contact". The US CDC also really just says that it should be considered if there is direct contact, and "can be considered" if there might have been contact unknowingly (ie "woke up with a bat in the bedroom").
So hey, maybe we're all going to die painfully. But it doesn't seem likely, and the CDC guidelines don't really seem to say that we should worry.
Oh, and btw, if it wasn't clear, I may have exaggerated the ferocity of the bat just a tiny bit.
ReplyDeleteIt was clearly not happy about being caught, and made a hissing noise in the plastic container.
But it didn't really have three-inch blood-dripping fangs, and it didn't really roar and try to chew its way out of capticity.
And while you can see its blurry open mouth in that picture, there was no human flesh actually present in it. That lack of human flesh may not be clear from the crappy photo, so you'll just have to trust me on it.
You are not supposed to do that sort of bat testing on the kernel...
ReplyDeleteObviously this is a sign from above (or somewhere). Cue dramatic music ... an omen!
ReplyDeleteThis is the end of the age of Sheep on Meth. Time to update the kernel name:
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> NAME = Roaring Bat with three-inch-long fangs
"I have no idea how it actually got into our house"
ReplyDeleteWell from how you describe the bat, it probably just kicked the door in.
Might want to call for a chimney sweep, and ask them to check the cap and the flu.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to attract bats to our yard so that they can take care of the dog-sized mosquitoes around here. Hopefully, he will stick around nearby but stay out of your house. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it's time to call Manu -The Bat Slayer- Ginobili! Just in case...
ReplyDeleteNice visitor, Linus... =P
ReplyDeleteI'm really asking myself how he entered your home...
BTW, no chances of rabies, where I live we see lots of bats on the night...
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ReplyDeletethis is really shocking and you are brave enough to manage to through that devil outside the house. i hat bats ,they are not good sign..keep them away..
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"..i hat bats ,they are not good sign..keep them away.."
ReplyDeleteActually, in Chinese culture bats are something of a good luck charm, I have been told.
A penguin bite you and you made penguin linux's mascot. Luckily the bat don't otherwise it would give batman a headache :P
ReplyDeleteHa ha - loving the mixed reactions to bats, also the notion that the bat was really going to chew at you was hilarious!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was a vampire! :D