Has a bat ever flown into your apartment at night? How do you deal with it?

If a bat flew into my apartment, everyone in my apartment complex would hear me scream. The only time I've seen a bat was when I went into a couple of caves when I was on vacation years ago. Bats just aren't common where I live. I guess I'm just not very tough! I've had a wasp come into my apartment, and all night I was paranoid I was going to get stung. I closed my bedroom door and prayed that it was in my living room and hadn't got into my bedroom.: )

Wow was it a big bat? I have only once had a bat come into the house. It came in and hit itself on the glass and luckily flew out again. I think my cats would think it was a bird and chase it if one did come in. Over here in England the bat is a protected animal so you cannot harm them or even move them on if one decided to live in your attic you would have to get the Councils permission to get it out!

Hello William - so far I have never been visited by bat, and talking about bat there are many types of bat. I had learned about bat in 2005, where at night it use sonar-like-system to keep them flying safely and use smell sensitivity in looking for foods, especially fruits. But, there is one type of bat which is categorized under carnivores/carnivorous a.k.a vampire - a blood sucker bat which rely on blood.

Maybe the one visited your apartment was a stray bat which out of its flying group. Really sorry for not much can help in this case, and the only thing that I know is to use powerful electronic bat control which costs you around $50 and it operates on common household AC power outlet.

I'm laughing really hard right now! (NOT @ U!)! I thought that I was the only one this has ever happened to, as I've never personally known anyone else, until now! When I moved into this house 1-1/2 years ago, the 3rd night I was here, a bat swooped over me in my living room! Being home alone with the windows all closed, I had no idea where it had come from. It flew around and around (i just "ducked") and then it disappeared. After a little while, it stopped flying around, I went upstairs to investigate and, as I thought, all of the windows were closed. This is an old house that has "holes" in it, around light fixtures and pipes especially, so I closed off the upstairs and opened the windows. I waited a couple of days (no one lived upstairs at the time) and then opened the doors. The bat was never to be seen again! I still don't know what "hole" it crawled out of, but it apparently didn't want to live with me any more than I wanted to live with it!
(P.S) Where did YOU sleep when you left the bat "alone in the apartment?*wink*

My wife did. It was old and about to die so she hung it up on her back porch and fed it beetles until it died. She said it had beautiful back and white soft furn.

This has happened to me when I was a kid. Bats use to come inside the house through the window/door. My mom was brilliant in handling this. She used to leave the door/window open switch of the lights in the room where the bat is and go to another room and after some time the bat would have gone. Its a belief that bats can see only in the dark. Am not sure whether it is the truth but it has worked out each time when we have tried.

hi williiam, so far i havent any experience to see bat on our apartment..but theirs a dove who often visit in my place and sometime do some business at my veranda,,

That sounds nice. Bat's are fairly harmless on the whole, it probably freaked when you tried pushing it out. Try some window screen perhaps, and maybe a sonic device away from the home to make sure they attract there instead of your window!!

Yea bat paid a visit on my room through the window...i cant sleep thinking how to fly it out...so while im thinking i have my bat beside in case of emergency LOL...so i decide to turn the lights off then when i woke up it suddenly disappeared..so i guess it fly off when i turn off the light..

wow,a bat,i have never seen that before, no bat will be come to my apartment, so i don't know how to let them away.seveal years ago, when we lived in our old house, there is a bee lived on the top of our balcony,it seem very terrible, but if you don't touch it, they seem very salf,i think that your apartment have something attract the bat.if you know that, maybe the bat will be fly away. good luck!