No, I wasn't inspired to become Batman

[MegoSteve]

I was sitting in my living room minding my own business when I suddenly heard some activity out in the kitchen. The cats had knocked something over and when I got up to investigate, I noticed them chasing a bat around.

Nothing gets your heart pumping at midnight like a bat flying around in circles in a confined space. This is the second time a bat has been in my house in the past two weeks, so there's some opening somewhere that I need to find and close. At least this one was flying, though; the one from two weeks ago caused such a stir in the middle of the night that the cats woke me up, and by the time I got dressed to catch it and put it out, they had it on the floor in the living room and had just about finished it off. I just trapped it under a bucket, then slid a piece of cardboard under it to seal it inside, then carried it outside and threw it on the grass.

This guy was more persistent, though. My strategy is trap and release; several years ago when a bat got in, I trapped it in a bedroom and waited until in landed on a window frame to rest, then used a broom to brush it into a cat carrier, then took it outside. I was too nervous because this time I wasn't in a closed room... and the first time I tried to brush it into the carrier it ended up flying at me and freaking me right out. Luckily, he was resting on the door frame right above the front door, so I just opened the doors and waited for him to come out. After he frantically flew in circles for a few minutes, he finally flew out the front door.

Now I'm so amped up that I can't sleep!

[DocDrako]

I like bats...on tv or in movies. I don't even mind them when I walk in the evening and see them going about their Bat-Business. But I don't want them in my house. I admire your courage, MegoSteve. I would have been screaming like a girl the whole time. No offense, girls. You just have higher pitched voices than I do, except in this instance, where I would be screaming in a girl-like manner.

[RG]

to be safe have them checked out for rabies ... always better to be safe than sorry ... even if you didn't get bit ... it helps the Health Dept. track if there is an outbreak in your area. Do you have a fire place and does it have one of those covers over the top of the chimney, that works to keeps wildlife out? That might be how they get in ... they might be roosting in your chimney and you might have build up around your flue creating a small area for them to into you home.

If it happend to me I would have messed my pants and ran away crying ... I hate bats.