Help! Bat!

[PawsQueen]

There is a fucking BAT in my house. I cannot deal with flapping thing
HELP wtf do I do

[quote PawsQueen]@Chemenger most definitely not
He can't even catch a spider and is recovering from getting himself stuck in a radiator 24hrs ago... [/quote]
That's what he wants you to think. I have to ask - stuck in a radiator?

@Chemenger we went to the vet because he got injured outside (no idea how) and they said he's just got sore front legs
About 5hrs later we were home after painkillers and I heard this horrific howling. He had jumped on the windowsill, gone to jump down and got his back claw/toe wedged in the top of the radiator grille. Was dangling upside with his leg twisted completely stuck and screaming

Poor thing! So now he has three sore legs?

Oh yes. And he's only got one tooth too

I love him already.

Photo of idiot one toof cat next to book for size

Idiot one toof cat is adorable! 😍

Just wanted to add that although extremely rare, people can potentially catch EBLV (a rabies type virus) from UK bats if they are bitten. So OP, admiring from a safe distance was definitely the good decision!

Am I the only one who saw Bat! in the thread title and thought of Matt Berry's character in What We Do In The Shadows?

Our cat once bought in a robin, completely unharmed, flying about. All windows shut, it could only have come in via the catflap. DH came home early to grab some stuff before getting a taxi to the train station so he was running around the house trying to get the robin out before it arrived. It found an open window just in time. This was just after Christmas, we joked all the robin pictures on christmas cards gave the cat ideas

Bats in the UK don’t carry disease - Covid, rabies or otherwise

Um, bats in the UK DO carry rabies!! Its very rare, but a man died after being bitten by a bat a few years ago on Scotland. They changed the laws and now all bat handlers have to be vaccinated against rabies!

An extremely small tiny chance though!

www.gov.uk/guidance/rabies-in-bats#risk-to-humans-from-infected-bats

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2509375.stm

OK, it was 19 years ago, bloody hell times passing fast!

Why do I think that the author of Simon's Cat has read this thread?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-tYzyqnc8/?utmmedium=copyy_link

They really can’t hurt you just leave the windows open they’re cute. Honest ;)

Dear god, Ollie. I'm sure I've said this before but that is one impressive yawn! [grin.] Glad Batty has escaped.