What the fuck is this animal on my wall?? I am terrified

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Can't get closer
It's in alcove in kitchen where we keep Hoover and stuff
I've been doing the recycling
It is messy and I am bricking it
Does it bite

@Fruitbatdancer hahahahaha

" Maureen, will you stop looking through the door, you're not helping." 😂

Hilarious OP - I really enjoyed this wild ride!!

Naw. THIS is a bat

"He's makin' a mockery outta you boy!" is now one of our family catchphrases.

For the bat lovers on the thread... here are some baby bats I've hand reared...

We have rabid bats here. (U.S)

We had a rabid bat a few miles from where I live near the south coast of England in the 1990s. They thought it had hitched a lift on a cross-channel ferry. They managed to catch it (them?) before any harm was done, iirc.

We're very lucky to live in a rabies-free country imo.

Lakie bats carrying the rabies-family EBLVirus doesn't change our status as a rabies-free country, but they do carry it. It's not nearly as prevalent as it is in bats in continental Europe or in other parts of the world, though.

Thousands of bats have been tested in the UK, and 16 have been found carrying the live virus - all Daubenton's. A bat worker in Scotland died from rabies a few years ago, though he didn't necessarily get that from a UK bat, as he'd been working abroad.

www.bats.org.uk/pages/-bats_and_rabies-1099.html

I've killed the thread with my bat facts.

DINNA DINNA DINNA DINNA DINNA DINNA DINNA DINNA BAT FACTS!!

Very cute @UtterlyBatty

And thanks for sharing your bat facts. They are very sweet aren't they???

iklboo 😭** 😂

It's a bat

Call rentokil

I can't believe noone's suggested licking it yet

Noo @UtterlyBatty it was just dinner / witching hours for folks with small kids!
I love bat facts

I NEED a baby bat to hand rear! How did you get it?

Bat on a strawberry

That would be a fruit bat.

UtterleyBatty

You have the world's best job. I envy you - you must run into work singing every day. I would.

At the risk of ruining the lovely battiness on this thread, @utterlybatty we had a bat in our house which died and we sent the body off in a test tube to be tested for rabies. I've never found out what type of bat it was, do you think you'd be able to identify it from pictures?

Actually I adore bats. My favourite place is the bat houses at Chester Zoo and Knowsley Safari Park. I could spend hours in there just getting buzzed by fly pasts. It's so serene & peaceful. Then other people come in and spoil it

iklboo

Many years ago when my son was in his early/mid-teens, we used to get bats flittering about around our street/garden.

DS had a catapult and would spend the twilight hours on an evening firing mealworms into the air for our little leathery-winged friends to scoff. It was lovely!

As anyone who's strolled through the Botanical Gardens in Sydney at dusk will know, adult fruit bats en masse are bloody terrifying.

Ohhhhhhh those baby bats! We get bats in our garden in the evening. I looooove them and would absolutely let one sleep in my bed as well 🦇💕

@BellMcEnd baby bat (aka pup) co-sleeping is dangerous. Make the pup a cosy nest to sleep in and be a responsible bat mummy.

Schadenfreude 😂😂😂😂😂