Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Victorian Houses Are Really Cute

But they are more likely to let a bat into your room at 3am than your anonymous suburban brick box.

And then allow the bat to disconcertingly vanish again without being apprehended despite an hour of intermittent skirmishes.

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  2. Maybe, but there's a 6 story brick box that I work in that has yearly infections of bats, so badly in fact that use of certain floors is curtailed until they migrate.

    So I take it the bat won? They always do regardless of the sealing/closing that was done; we've had students get bitten and be rushed off for a round of rabies boosters. What fun! :\

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  3. You may have read about my experience with bats in my Victorian home here and here.

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  4. The girls were evacuates safely, and the bat was pinned down a few times against a window, but in the end he vanished while we were out of the room waiting for him to settle again -- the theory is that he left through the same loose window we think we got in through.

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  5. hmmm... I knew it was common in Chillicothe to find rats and mice under the sofa in the front yard, but I didn't realize that they got bats in their bedroom too. Learn something knew everyday...

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  6. Have you guys gotten "medical advice" as the CDC suggests if you awaken to find a bat in your home, even if you have no obvious signs of a bite? It says bats seen inside homes are much more likely to be rabid.

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  7. [The CDC] says bats seen inside homes are much more likely to be rabid."

    The Ohio Department of Wildlife says otherwise. It's a fairly common thing in this part of the country.

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  8. But I don't want to discourage anyone from following up on the rabies thing if they have any concerns about it. That was the reason I called the Dept. of Wildlife in the first place.

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