<p>Poor girl. She first saw it Sunday night. She lives in an older brick house/apt that is divided into 4 units. She was in the basement doing laundry and wonders if came from the basement. </p>
<p>She THOUGHT she got him out Sunday night by swooping at it and directing it’s flying towards the back door. She said it’s so fast she wasn’t 100% sure if he went out but didn’t see him anymore that night (notice how I have decided it’s a “he”). Last night about the same time Barry The Bat returns! She yelled up to the apt above her and the girl and her BF came down to help - at one point D thought she smacked him with the broom but when she moved the broom it wasn’t there - REALLY weird. She called her landlord - he nicely came over with his son and 2 lacrosse sticks at 10pm - no sign of the bat, nothing resolved. </p>
<p>Landlord was going to talk to an exterminator today but apparently all they can do is shoo them out or “trap” them - not allowed to kill them. D has heard nothing and fears that he will only come “out” at night.</p>
<p>ANY tips, suggestions, recommendations to offer on how to get the sucker to fly out the door should she see him again??? We told her to wear gloves in case of any contact. She slept in her closed door bedroom last night with blankets butted up against the door. Poor girl is afraid to go home from work…</p>
<p>Haha - thanks for the rooming offer Nrdsb4!!! Have to admit, as someone who is totally creeped out by creepy things like rodents, flying things, etc. I am CREEPED OUT to even talk to her about it! </p>
<p>She is wondering how much she should press the landlord to work to get this thing out? He doesn’t seem to have a great plan/solution. </p>
<p>I would call a wild life rehabber. Yes, they do take in bats (at least where I live), and I think it would be much better for the bat than getting the landlord involved.</p>
<p>I like bats a lot - I think they are very cute, but they CAN carry rabies, so if you touch them they will be immediately euthanized to check for rabies - don’t touch the bat with your bare hands (that’s what our local rehabber always says).</p>
<p>For something that can locate a mosquito from 60 ft, they seem awfully bad at finding open windows and doors. I had them a couple of times when we lived back east. </p>
<p>Does she know anyone with one of those big fishing nets? That and thick gloves just in case.</p>
<p>abasket, not to freak you out but if the bat has been in her apartment for a couple of days, she should find someone to trap it and she should NOT try to get it out. Some states are encouraging homeowners to trap the bat if it’s been in the apartment overnight because sometimes bat bites can be easy to miss. There have been cases where people have been bitten or scratched during the night and not known about it. Bats carry rabies. The CDC recommends trapping and testing a bat that has been in a home to make sure that it is not rabid.
<a href=“CDC - Bats - Rabies”>http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/bats.html</a></p>
<p>Again, not to scare you but if she can get someone to get the bat, it is best to do that. This happened to a friend of mine last summer and she was able to get the bat trapped and tested for rabies. It was negative but because it had been in her home for 24 and while they were sleeping, the dept. of public health wanted it in hand.</p>
<p>We had one in our bedroom recently, the poor thing was scared and though I opened the windows wide it had trouble finding it. It eventually landed behind a small cabinet, it was very small and scared, really pathetic looking. I used a big towel to pick it up, and took it outside where it eventually caught its breath and flew off from the table I had put it on. I wouldn’t call bats rats with wings, a single bat can eat several thousand mosquitoes and insects on a given night. There is the threat of rabies, but that is true of almost any mammal, raccoons are big cariers, but the old wives tales about them biting people and such is complete rubbish, and the only bat who I thought was a vampire was my mother in law, who had relatives who came from what is known as Transylvania…</p>
<p>One summer many years back I rented an apartment at the beach with my best friend. It was in a nice house and our space was in the newly renovated attic. In the middle of the night I awoke to my friend shrieking and jumping around the room pulling at her hair. I thought she had gone mad. I flicked on the lights and saw there was something alive entangled in her hair. It was a bat. The noise brought up one of the guys from the rental downstairs who, thinking there was an intruder, arrived wielding a hockey stick. The bat finally got loose and flew frantically around the room. It ultimately knocked itself out from flying into the walls and one of the guys took it outside. Awful experience.</p>
<p>At least have her shut her bedroom door at night. They are pretty small so they can be hard to find.</p>
<p>EPTR is right. MY friend at work had one, same circumstance and they didn’t save the bat. They including her 3 kids are all getting rabies shots. She didn’t know the bat just had to be there overnight.</p>
<p>Well, first things first - I’m not showing her this thread! </p>
<p>I agree about someone getting the bat out - but who? Her landlord was suppose to call in an exterminator today - but if they don’t see it…it doesn’t help at all when she sees it - if the “trapper” is not there! </p>
<p>She did close her bedroom off last night when she saw it - and slept with it closed and the bottom slit of door blocked with blankets. </p>
<p>I know this - we are suppose to visit and stay with her this weekend - I’m thinking I’ll be looking up hotel rooms tonight…</p>
<p>Friends just had a bat in their house. The bat was trapped and removed for testing, and the family all had to get rabies shots. They say it is very difficult to tell if you were bitten, and better safe than sorry. </p>
<p>I am sorry your daughter has to deal with this. I would be totally freaked out as well.</p>
<p>When i was first married, i walked into the bathroom and there was a bat spread out over the drain of the tub. I ran out screaming and told my H I would be at my parents until it was gone. No idea what he did to remove it, but i never saw another bat. It was gross and just thinking about it gives makes my skin crawl. </p>
<p>Neighbor just bought an old farm house with bats in the attic. $10K to trap and remove them. She couldn’t even do that until after Aug. 1st because the baby bats cannot be moved before then. </p>
<p>I doubt that an exterminator can do anything, because they are considered wildlife around here, and the Department of Natural Resources gets involved. </p>
<p>When we had a ground hog running up and down the center aisle of my sanctuary a few years ago, we had that same issue. Since this is an anonymous site, I can tell you that the DNR did not get involved… one of the church members had a nice live trap. When the groundhog returned, my spouse had the live trap and a shotgun. It wasn’t legal to kill him on the church property, so he went for a bit of a hike and did not return again.</p>