20-05-2010, 10:59 PM
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Fright night!
I was tinkering away on the computer when I saw something large in the corner of my eye flying straight for me. Turning my head I was met by what looked like a huge mutant moth coming straight at me. Whoooooaaaaaa!!!!
I leaped back so the chair tipped back and crashed onto the floor, even the dogs woke up. The beast lay on the floor like a stealth fighter and after my initial WTF moment I realised it was.... a bat! It must have flown in while the door was open when I let the dogs out.I caught it in a jam jar, not wishing to harm it by picking it up, and released it outside. Due to my advanced cabin fever I even talked to it during the process!!!!
Well it makes a change from the pair of foxes that frolic through the ground behind the house, the weasels, pheasant and hares!
AND the dogs left it alone.
21-05-2010, 07:36 AM
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I like bats, we often have them in the garden in the summer,I had a similar scare a few years ago when one came in the window at night, I turned the light on to see what was going on and it shot down the back of the bed.
Our first cat caught several bats, she must have caught them when they came down to drink or was flying low. She used to bring them into the house and let them go.
We are lucky DM that we are rabies free in the UK, I just hope we stay that way.
21-05-2010, 08:27 AM
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We don't have rabies in Ireland either. It was either a Pipistrelle or a Daubenton's bat, (I have a river as one side boundary). They used to live in the ruined cottage that stood where my house is now and I have often wondered where they are living now although there is another derelict cottage 100 yards up the lane. When I first moved here, dusk was a great time to see them hurtling around the house which I liked to see, but coming full speed towards my head in my own, well-lit house? I think this one must have been drunk!
21-05-2010, 05:55 PM
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Bats are really very frightened creatures, they start flying around as soon as something or some-one goes near to them.They fly like they are drunk because they rely on radar type signals to get around.
There is a saying, which I believe is true, that once you accept death as part of dying then nothing will frighten you.
We were brought up with dying being part of living so I always say that I am not frightened of dying, it is just something else to put up with.
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A bat flying straight at me would I think, scare the living daylights out of me though.
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