I'm Gonna Refrain Like It's 2021 :musical_note:

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And who said anything about touching them? 😱

My husband scooped it up or jiggled it into a tennis ball container so he could show people at work! 😂
 
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CRV said:
assuming that you had to catch them to release them back outside that is?
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Bats can be trusted to find their own way out. Birds can be more troublesome. Sometimes, when all the windows are open, a bat or a bird will fly in through one window and out through another one, but birds sometimes lose their way, and then they panic and try and fly up through the ceiling. We naturally worry that the bird might injure itself, but there’s no way you can catch a bird until it gets tired. Se we just sit quietly for a few minutes, being careful to do nothing that might scare it, until it settles in a reachable place — on top of a picture frame, for instance — where I can carefully scoop it up and release it through the window.
 
@JulianN … … exactly what I was wondering!
BartholomewB said:
The term “lyssavirus” is new to me.
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Lyssaviruses and rabies: current conundrums, concerns, contradictions and controversies 2017 article

" By one small measure, during the time taken by a typical reader to peruse this article, more than 1,300 people will have been exposed to rabies virus (RABV). "

“In terms of relative distribution, overt abundance, and resulting progeny, rabies virus is the most successful lyssavirus species today, but for unknown reasons.”

" Phylogroup I includes Rabies lyssavirus , Aravan lyssavirus , Australian bat lyssavirus , Bokeloh lyssavirus , Duvenhage lyssavirus , European bat lyssaviruses , type 1 and type 2 , Irkut lyssavirus , Khujand lyssavirus , and the new Gannoruwa bat lyssavirus. Phylogroup II includes Lagos bat lyssavirus , Mokola lyssavirus , and Shimoni bat lyssavirus . The remaining West Caucasian bat lyssavirus , Ikoma lyssavirus , and Lleida bat lyssavirus are not included in either phylogroup."

“All phylogroup I lyssaviruses circulate in bats. Among these, only RABV is also adapted to perpetuation in carnivores.”

"Lyssaviruses of multiple species (with the notable exception of RABV) circulate in Old World bats, but only RABV circulates in New World bats. "

So I assumed bats everywhere either do or potentially can carry it.
Irishmom2 said:
And who said anything about touching them?
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Not me! I’d be outta da house quicker than lightning!! And then call someone else to come and retrieve it.
 
BartholomewB said:
One morning a few days ago I found one dangling from a light fixture.
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One of the oddities of my stay in DuBois, PA was the bats.

People simply accepted that sometimes they would get inside.

Standard procedure was to open the window, close the door, and sleep in another room that night!
😱 😱

We didn’t know that when we got one, but noticed our landlord’s lights were on next door. I went over, and he asked if we wanted him to deal with it.

“err, please.”

And then we had a crazed greek who might have been able to claim five feet in hight to a gullible listener chasing a bat around the room with a broom!

Oh, and the cat we took in was a serious hunter. We never did figure out how he caught bats . . .
BartholomewB said:
but they’re evidently harmless as long as you leave them alone.
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they’re also really good at keeping down carnivorous insect levels . . .
 
New title - Please refrain from biting the 🦇 …

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or else … …

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Y’all, we can’t ban Ozzy Osbourne from CAF, and I hope a few of y’all get the reference
 
Good find! I searched for just such a picture but didn’t find one, so went with the cute bat instead 😂
 
but, it looks tasty
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Here is my cake:

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i guess everyone is complaint free

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No posting, no refraining, no fraining, no title-changing, no flushing, no bat biting, no complaining, … What next? No “No”?
 
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