We had a bad somehow enter our house, and my wife got scared to death as she was walking down the hall and the bat flew by her head. Never had a bat in the house before, but a quick check online (at midnight last night) said we needed to catch it, and get it tested for rabies, since it had been around our daughter, and us for an unknown time. It is now sitting in a plastic bin...
Anyone have this experience? Where do we get it tested? Do we need to keep it alive? I'm sad the poor thing has to die now that it got in our house, but according the the sites we checked, they said you shouldn't risk it, not knowing if it had rabies or not.
Any suggestions?
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
RenegadeCJ wrote: We had a bad somehow enter our house, and my wife got scared to death as she was walking down the hall and the bat flew by her head. Never had a bat in the house before, but a quick check online (at midnight last night) said we needed to catch it, and get it tested for rabies, since it had been around our daughter, and us for an unknown time. It is now sitting in a plastic bin...
Anyone have this experience? Where do we get it tested? Do we need to keep it alive? I'm sad the poor thing has to die now that it got in our house, but according the the sites we checked, they said you shouldn't risk it, not knowing if it had rabies or not.
Any suggestions?
:VeryScared: We have bats up here?!?
" I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. " Mae West
Yes we do. We have an old sign on the side of the house, a couple of years ago we had a bat living between the sign and the house. We named him "Orkin" after the pest control company.
That was my initial reaction. Catch it, and send it on it's way. Way too many websites had a concern about rabies, especially if the bat has potentially been in a room with sleeping people. They would then recommend getting the rabies "prevention" shots, which I have heard are quite painful, and very expensive. If we hadn't been home, or didn't have a young daughter who was sleeping at the time, or if it were just me, I'd probably let it go.
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
But rabies is transmitted by direct contact so I figure if it didn't bite me and if he isn't foaming at the mouth and chasing cars down the lane; he just squeezed into my house and is lost.....just me though, I'm not recommending anything.
