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

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nhssecretary · 31/08/2018 14:05

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

What the fuck is this animal on my wall?? I  am terrified
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MustShowDH · 01/09/2018 00:16

Gah, now I have to watch the thread to see if its a bat or a strawberry!

user1473878824 · 01/09/2018 01:05

Oh my god OP please be my best friend

yoyo1234 · 01/09/2018 01:10

I will now need to watch the thread to see it it is a bat/ moth/strawberry hybred....

Belina · 01/09/2018 01:42

Aw baby bats are so cute shame it isny one could of had a little pet

DameDoom · 01/09/2018 02:05

UtterlyBatty those pics are soooo sweet. I love watching the bats frolic around in the garden on a summer's evening - it's magical.
There were a lots of fruit bats hanging from the trees when DH and I went to India... the mummy bats with furry baby bats clinging to them was heart-melting.

WhyIsntGeorgeCalledPeterOrPaul · 01/09/2018 02:28

Don't be embarrassed, OP, we've all mistaken a piece of mouldy fruit for a scary animal at one point or another.

Right guys?

Thankewe · 01/09/2018 02:40

So was it a strawberry?

mellongoose · 01/09/2018 03:59

When my DH was still a fairly new DP I was round at his. He hadn't washed up the night before and started to fill the bowl in the morning. A bat was in his washing up!!!!!!

It was still alive so he rescued it and it seemed to be none the worse for its night nestled in the dirty plates.

Not what you expect though 😮

Bouledeneige · 01/09/2018 08:40

I love bats too. But not necessarily on my living room wall!

TacoFriday · 01/09/2018 08:46

Hand reared baby bats aren’t released back into the wild. They spend the rest of their lives in a cage. That’s why it’s important to always try to return the babies back to the nest. There is often more than one nest and the mother moves them around, according to the temperature. One nest will be built somewhere cooler than the other and the mother will move the young as needed. Sadly, many times people will assume the babies have been abandoned and will “rescue” the baby bats to live a life in captivity.

CatkinToadflax · 01/09/2018 09:20

Aww I like the idea of a Bat Helpline. Staffed by sympathetic Bat Counsellors for Sad Bats to talk to? 🦇

Leapfrog44 · 01/09/2018 19:11

why don't you take a better pic for us? Bats wobble around but it looks far to small even for a bumble bee bat. How big is it?

UtterlyBatty · 01/09/2018 20:13

@Strax that looks like a BLE (Brown Long Eared bat) to me. Second most common bat to come into rescue after Pipistrelles - two of the pics I posted are of BLEs. They're gorgeous bats, and fly like hummingbirds, graceful and hovering.

@TacoFriday what are you basing your statements on?! Confused The pups I hand reared this summer are certainly not going to be confined to a cage for the rest of their lives. They are currently with a very experienced bat rehabilitator who takes in juveniles from carers all over the area and has a large secure area in which they learn to hunt for themselves. They will then be released in September.

You are right that bats often have several roosts, and bats can carry pups when they're young, but it's not long before they get too heavy. Mother bats sometimes abandon the maternity roost, and unfortunately, any pup that is too heavy to carry but not old enough to fly will be abandoned. Reuniting a pup with its mother is always the best outcome, but this is by no means always possible, and their best option then is to be hand reared. It's not an easy option, but its their best chance if the roost has been abandoned/ they can't be returned to an inhabited roost because it's inaccessible / the roost site is unknown and the mother doesn't pick up the pup. No carer undertakes hand rearing lightly - it's a hugely demanding process, and you can never fully replicate the milk and care that a mother bat provides.

agnurse I've just had a quick look, and there seem to be various bat rescue/conservation/rehabilitation organisations in Canada, so definitely worth looking for something in your area if you'd like to get into it.

Schadenfreude yay! Welcome to the world of bats! Grin

BellMcEnd · 01/09/2018 20:44

We’ve just been bat watching in the garden and saw a couple. DS2 was beside himself, he was so thrilled. If I had my choice they’d be like this (@kaytee87) 🦇💖

What the fuck is this animal on my wall?? I  am terrified
Yorkshiremum17 · 01/09/2018 21:19

We've had a pair of bats in our garden for years patrolling up and down. We've called them Ozzy and Sharon😀

love to see them flitting about.

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HeckyPeck · 01/09/2018 22:35

Suck it up in the Hoover. If it's a bat it will die

Shock Angry

SchadenfreudePersonified · 01/09/2018 22:37

Suck it up in the Hoover. If it's a bat it will die

You murderous bastard manicmij

These are intelligent, sentient creatures - and they are as cute as anything.

BellMcEnd · 01/09/2018 22:52

Wtaf manicmij??

agnurse · 01/09/2018 22:53

BellMcEnd

I think I just overdosed on cuteness. Look at the little baby batties! They are SO adorable!

ihatetosay · 01/09/2018 22:58

dont be so pathetic - glass cardboard put it outside ALIVE

RustyBear · 01/09/2018 23:05

Disco bats

What the fuck is this animal on my wall?? I  am terrified
LinoleumBlownapart · 01/09/2018 23:09

Suck it up in the Hoover. If it's a bat it will die If it's a piece of rotten food it's already dead!

Sad

I live in Brazil, we occasionally get visits from free-tails, we usually turn off all the lights and let them find their own way out. They are really really cute. Little scrunched up noses and much more welcome than some of the other visitors we get.

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine · 01/09/2018 23:42

Awwww I want a pet bat! DS loves bats too :)

agnurse · 02/09/2018 04:34

UtterlyBatty

I did not know Canada has organizations too! Maybe eventually I should look into that. (I say eventually because Hubby and I both work fulltime and have 3 cats. Two might attack a bat. One would probably try to snuggle it and make friends with it. He is a little strange.)

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