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Bat help needed

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  • #62
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Spent two hours looking for him this morning, he's disappeared.

    I'll be ready for him tonight though.


  • #63
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Spent two hours looking for him this morning, he's disappeared.

    I'll be ready for him tonight though.

    This thread could be epic.

    I'm picturing TBM sauntering round his house with a hair net on, butterfly net in hand. :D

    /subscribes to thread.


  • #64
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Searched the house high and low again tonight and can't find the fcuker anywhere. I just know I'll be getting off to sleep when I'll hear the flapping starting again. :(


  • #65
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Is there someone I could call?

    Batbusters.


  • #66
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Searched the house high and low again tonight and can't find the fcuker anywhere. I just know I'll be getting off to sleep when I'll hear the flapping starting again. :(

    Pretend to be a mugger, then get your other half to shine a bat-shaped light up onto the ceiling. It'll come running, after a short while, accompanied by a red breasted bird. At that point, erm, stop pretending to be a mugger, and , erm, well, someone else will suggest the rest..if it kicks your arse and ties you up, just play dead. And don't mention its parents.


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  • #67
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Pretend to be a mugger, then get your other half to shine a bat-shaped light up onto the ceiling. It'll come running, after a short while, accompanied by a red breasted bird. At that point, erm, stop pretending to be a mugger, and , erm, well, someone else will suggest the rest..if it kicks your arse and ties you up, just play dead. And don't mention its parents.
    Two small snags.

    I don't have

    A) A bat shaped thing

    B) An other half


  • #68
    daviecronin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭daviecronin


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Two small snags.

    I don't have

    A) A bat shaped thing

    B) An other half

    Is he actually still there?


  • #69
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    daviecronin wrote: »
    Is he actually still there?
    He was in a room where all the windows and doors were closed, there was no way out. Unless he was rescued by a gang of commando bats or something.


  • #70
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Grow some hair, trap it in your hair, walk outside.

    Or just catch him and bring him outside, simples.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Catch-a-Bat-in-Your-House


  • #71
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Boskowski wrote: »
    I imagine if uou leave the window open tonight he'll just leave eventually.
    They're harmless little creatures and they maneuver by ultrasound/radar so they know exactly where they're going at night. No problem there in fact they're able to hunt for insects when pitch black so no worries about bumping into things or your good self. He was probably after some fat moth and took the wrong turn.

    It happens the best of us.... Although normally the wrong turn occurs before we go after the fat moth late at night :o


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  • #72
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Two small snags.

    I don't have

    A) A bat shaped thing

    B) An other half

    Get a torch, a scissors and some cardboard. Petersons do torches I think.


  • #73
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    Look who visits my kitchen at night. The fruit thief/bin raider.

    What in the hell is that?

    Backwards Man.... I dunno... How are you not ****tin yourself? I'm afraid now that there is one in my room.


  • #74
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    A bat has just flew in my window and I can't get it out again. Any tips on how to (humanely) get rid of it?

    Embrace it. Bats are cool.

    One of my favourite childhood memories is cradling an injured bat, in my hands, that I found in the sink in my primary school bathroom. I have no idea if it lived or died, but I hope it pulled through. Magnificent animals.


  • #75
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    Are bats a country thing nowadays? I ain't never seen one in the big smoke......Please reassure me.......


  • #76
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    A bat has just flew in my window and I can't get it out again. Any tips on how to (humanely) get rid of it?

    Let it fly around freely and wait until it lands-if you try chasing it with a net or somethin youll only scare it into flying even faster....once it lands put somethin over it slowly like a bowl or jar and have something ready to cover it when you're picking it up,and then release it out the door.
    I've had this many times....

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #77
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    gg2 wrote: »
    Are bats a country thing nowadays? I ain't never seen one in the big smoke......Please reassure me.......

    Nope...

    I'm a countryman livin in town for the last ten years and ive had nearly five of them fly in me window in the space of a few months at one stage(bear in mind I do live in a top floor apartment).
    Anyway don't panic-the ones we have in Ireland are more scared of us than we are of them!

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #78
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    Seasan wrote: »
    Nope...

    I'm a countryman livin in town for the last ten years and ive had nearly five of them fly in me window in the space of a few months at one stage(bear in mind I do live in a top floor apartment).
    Anyway don't panic-the ones we have in Ireland are more scared of us than we are of them!

    Ok cool, if one comes in my window I'll just shout at it:D


  • #79
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    gg2 wrote: »
    Are bats a country thing nowadays? I ain't never seen one in the big smoke......Please reassure me.......

    You need no reassurance. The fauna in this country is absolutely harmless. We probably live in one of the safest places on earth. Our bats are beautiful - and completely harmless.


  • #80
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    He was in a room where all the windows and doors were closed, there was no way out. Unless he was rescued by a gang of commando bats or something.

    Why didn't you leave the window open for him? Maybe he went out anyway and closed it after himself. Bats are smart like that.


  • #81
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    You need no reassurance. The fauna in this country is absolutely harmless. We probably live in one of the safest places on earth. Our bats are beautiful - and completely harmless.

    Alright there Huckleberry Finn........:D
    Sorry but I am a total ****e bag... I'm getting better though... I put the spiders out the window by myself now:o


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  • #82
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    You need no reassurance. The fauna in this country is absolutely harmless. We probably live in one of the safest places on earth. Our bats are beautiful - and completely harmless.
    Seconded.

    Bats here really do have a bad reputation which is totally undeserved.

    Tis the real vermin like mice and rats which are the real pests that cause big problems.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #83
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Seasan wrote: »
    Seconded.

    Bats here really do have a bad reputation which is totally undeserved.

    Tis the real vermin like mice and rats which are the real pests that cause big problems.

    Mice are cute. Little tiny furry little things. Rats are cunts, though.


  • #84
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Used to get them years ago. My mother was terrified of them. Every one of them that came in never went out alive.

    Then we learned to close our windows in the evenings from March to September. I still hear their high pitched squeak most nights, bastards .


  • #85
    Deranged96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's disappeared downstairs now. Bastard is probably eating my fruit :(

    Unlikely since our national verities eat bugs.
    they don't fly into hair either, they have feckin sonar how could they?
    The only thing you can really do is throw a sheet on him, bundle him up and release him.

    Also i read somewhere that a pathogen carried by bats can cause brain tumours in humans


  • #86
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,240 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Happened to me a few times, just get a towel and some rubber gloves and you'll eventually get him out.


  • #87
    Hey Yall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Hey Yall


    BBDBB wrote: »
    Can I suggest frying it with some onions, garlic, a splash of red wine, half a chili, reduce it down to half its volume and then add half a carton of single cream, season to taste and some chips and seasonal vegetables on the side.

    You know what they say about bats .. They're the chicken of the cave.


  • #88
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    TBM has gone a bit quiet...... Maybe the bat ate him


  • #89
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    gg2 wrote: »
    TBM has gone a bit quiet...... Maybe the bat ate him

    Must have been a vampire bat so!


  • #90
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Still alive, no sign of Vampy anywhere. Kinda miss him now. :(


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  • #91
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Still alive, no sign of Vampy anywhere. Kinda miss him now. :(

    Did you try the spare room?


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