UPDATE: BATS IN ATTIC

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

The "bat specialists" came today....ladders, nets, screens, and buckets of cleaning supplies. What a mess!!

After paying $750, the bats 🦇 are gone. The attic was thoroughly checked for any offspring, the bat poop cleared out and screens put up in areas where they got in the attic.

Since the gates to our fenced yard and doors to the house were going to be opened & closed for hours, Sadie & Molly (my beagles) went to Doggie Daycare for safe keeping and had a bath w/ all the frills.

Maybe I should have kept the bats until the end of October. Eh, no!

LdyBugz · ‎03-10-2010

@Shanus Congrats about the bats! I bet you feel relieved that it's taken care of. I bet you'll sleep much better now, too!

I don't care how many bugs bats eat. I do not like them! !!

~LdyBugz

Pqfan · ‎03-09-2010

That must be a big relief!

I am happy for you Shanus!

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@LdyBugz wrote:
@Shanus Congrats about the bats! I bet you feel relieved that it's taken care of. I bet you'll sleep much better now, too!
I don't care how many bugs bats eat. I do not like them! !!
~LdyBugz

@LdyBugz Oh, you are so right. There have been many sleepless nights thinking I'm hearing scratching noises or seeing shadows on the walls. Just writing about it is making the hair on my neck stand up to attention!!!

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

That's a lot of money, but well spent indeed! I'm sure you are thrilled to not only be rid of the pesky bats, but to have the clean up all taken care of as well. I'm sure you'll rest much easier now. (Not to mention that bats are just not befitting someone of esteemed contributor status. LOL)

I'm dealing with a mouse (or mice) in my house right now. It's been going on for about 6 weeks. Traps all over the place; exterminator's been here three times; we just can't catch him. He's an elusive little fellow. We call him "MacGyver".

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

What happened to the bats? Were they taken somewhere else? @Shanus

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Citrine1 wrote:
That's a lot of money, but well spent indeed! I'm sure you are thrilled to not only be rid of the pesky bats, but to have the clean up all taken care of as well. I'm sure you'll rest much easier now. (Not to mention that bats are just not befitting someone of esteemed contributor status. LOL)

I'm dealing with a mouse (or mice) in my house right now. It's been going on for about 6 weeks. Traps all over the place; exterminator's been here three times; we just can't catch him. He's an elusive little fellow. We call him "MacGyver".

@Citrine1. Oh. I feel your pain. No one (or thing) should be in my house who's name isn't on the mortgage. Can't stand bugs, rodents and bats...maybe bats are rodents. Will have to Google that.

As far as being Esteemed, I'm sure even the Queen has had a bat in the belfry once or twice.

gizmogal · ‎05-09-2014

Interesting thread. Glad they are gone, @Shanus. Bats=bleccch. Not in my house! I'd be paralyzed.

Yep, they are mammals. But they are not rodents. They are in an order of their own in the animal kingdom. Chiroptera.

Read all about it: https://batworld.org/myths_facts_page/

Not actually any more endeared to them, reading that page. I just know more about them now. Wikipedia really gets even deeper into the bat topic. E-nuff!

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
What happened to the bats? Were they taken somewhere else? @Shanus

@SilleeMee I requested (before hiring) that the bats not be harmed. The guys brought cute little crate/bird cages and I assume the bats were in there and went on the truck to a place where they would be set free.

That's what I asked for and paid for.....I don't have a way to know what happened when they left my property. When this service was recommended to me, they were my choice because they claimed to not harm the bats because of the good they do in nature.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@gizmogal wrote:
Interesting thread. Glad they are gone, @Shanus. Bats=bleccch. Not in my house! I'd be paralyzed.

Yep, they are mammals. But they are not rodents. They are in an order of their own in the animal kingdom. Chiroptera.
Read all about it: https://batworld.org/myths_facts_page/

Not actually any more endeared to them, reading that page. I just know more about them now. Wikipedia really gets even deeper into the bat topic. E-nuff!

@gizmogal Thanks for the additional reading material, but since close to bedtime and hopefullly pleasant dreams, I'll pass on further knowledge of my unwanted Chiroptera.