OT- meet my temporary pet.
06-25-2005 | 11:39 AM
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06-25-2005 | 01:52 PM
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Ah, one time in a real sketchy abanonded house..I hit a bat with a bat (my bat was a baseball bat...)
It scared the crap out of me and I just swung. Contacted. I felt terrible afterwards but its a good story to the people that were there
It scared the crap out of me and I just swung. Contacted. I felt terrible afterwards but its a good story to the people that were there
06-26-2005 | 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by jason952
Believe some of the "logical" comments. Like.......if ya see one floundering around in the daytime, beware. Otherwise most of this stuff is just myth and BS, and I'm sure is nothing more than unfounded fears run amok. I've had bats in my house many times. I just put my leather gloves on, and put them back outside. My house is now sealed up much better now however, and haven't had that happen for at least a couple of years now.
Can ya tell I like bats? I have at least a half dozen living under the metal roof of my house every year, I've got a bat house up on the side of my house, and I'm still going to build myself a missouri bat house, one of these days, to try and get more of them on my property. IIRC, they average eating over 650 insects an hour each. I LIKE that, I DON'T worry about getting rabies from them. But, one should ALWAYS be mindfull of things like this.
06-26-2005 | 01:57 AM
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Insect eating bats arent likely to carry rabies since insects dont carry rabies. Also, being so small, they would die very fast.
Has anybody been to Carlsbad Caverns? I was there a week ago, and inside is home to about 450,000 mexican freetailed? insect eating bats. We stayed till sundown so we could watch the bats come out of the caves natural entrance. Instead of flying straight through the cave, the bats swirl around the caves walls until they eventually come out of the mouth like a spinning vortex. Its pretty cool to see. There were at least 100 people sitting in the amphitheatre watching the event, and nobody got a bat in their hair or guano on their face. There is no reason to be afraid of them.
Has anybody been to Carlsbad Caverns? I was there a week ago, and inside is home to about 450,000 mexican freetailed? insect eating bats. We stayed till sundown so we could watch the bats come out of the caves natural entrance. Instead of flying straight through the cave, the bats swirl around the caves walls until they eventually come out of the mouth like a spinning vortex. Its pretty cool to see. There were at least 100 people sitting in the amphitheatre watching the event, and nobody got a bat in their hair or guano on their face. There is no reason to be afraid of them.
06-26-2005 | 05:42 PM
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Sam, I used to take dates/ girlfriends to Austin for a weekend, and the Congress Ave. bats was always on the stop. Stroll out over the lake while the sun's going down, holding hands, and watching millions of the little critters wing away.
Fact- the Congress Avenue Bridge is home to the largest urban bat population on Earth. It's easy to spot urban bats from their rural counterparts; just look for the chain wallets, baggy pants, general ****-poor attitudes, etc. I raised to wounded screech owls once. Talk about eating bugs, man. Sheesh! Those suckers cleaned out every beehive around our property.
My brother had a knack for catching fliying things when we went fishing. As kids, he foul hooked a seagull. As Dad tried to free the (understandably) pissed off bird, Chris kept crying to Dad not to kill Jonathan Livingston, a seagull from his favorite children's book. Flash foward 20 years or more; my Dad took my brother and I fishing on Lake Tyler one night. I noticed my brother had something like a leaf tangled in his line as he reeled it in, so I said, " Bring that to me, I'll get it." I just about **** myself when it moved. Ten minutes later, Jonathan Livingston BAT was freed.
Fact- the Congress Avenue Bridge is home to the largest urban bat population on Earth. It's easy to spot urban bats from their rural counterparts; just look for the chain wallets, baggy pants, general ****-poor attitudes, etc. I raised to wounded screech owls once. Talk about eating bugs, man. Sheesh! Those suckers cleaned out every beehive around our property.
My brother had a knack for catching fliying things when we went fishing. As kids, he foul hooked a seagull. As Dad tried to free the (understandably) pissed off bird, Chris kept crying to Dad not to kill Jonathan Livingston, a seagull from his favorite children's book. Flash foward 20 years or more; my Dad took my brother and I fishing on Lake Tyler one night. I noticed my brother had something like a leaf tangled in his line as he reeled it in, so I said, " Bring that to me, I'll get it." I just about **** myself when it moved. Ten minutes later, Jonathan Livingston BAT was freed.