Another story from my mispent youth....  | | I went to college at Southwest Texas State University and stayed one semester in the high rise dorm called "The Woman's Residential Tower." Since I was only there the spring semester, it had to be in the spring of 1973.
A bat got into the dorm on my floor. There were girls opening their doors, screaming and slamming them again. There was one girl telling others to just stay in their rooms. I came out, told her to go down to the lobby and tell people not to come up to this floor so the elevator wouldn't offer the bat another place to go. I then turned out the lights on the floor and once it was dark and quiet, the bat settled down on the ceiling.
An upper class man came out of her room and offered her tall hamper to catch it - if I did the catching. That was fine with me, so I put the hamper over it on the ceiling. Then she offered her art board, if I'd do the sliding.
Now, I'm 5' nothing, she held the hamper while I stood on a table to slide the board over. We lowered it, then carried it to the window and she shoved it out as I pulled the board out of the way.
Then, as you might've guessed, I had to look in the hamper to make sure the bat was gone!
And ALL I got out of the adventure was a good story...
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| | | | | | | | 1. dragon54u (9627) | 6 months ago | I've never understood women's fear of bats and other things. It's ridiculous. I'm glad you kept a cool head and were able to remove the poor thing without injuring it. It's a miracle that it wasn't hurt by those hysterical dumb idiots!
The hamper trick is very handy! I use a similar technique to catch spiders and other beneficial bugs when they wander into my house. When I lived in the desert I used to do that with scorpions and tarantulas, although I could usually herd the tarantulas out the door without capture.
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | In fact, yesterday at work, I did the same thing for a spider at my client's. And once, before I retired, I was recruited to remove a bug from the lady who hated me's office. I have to say, she hated the bug more than me, but then hated having to be grateful!
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| | 2. stephcjh (22845) | 6 months ago | Wow. I think I would have been too scared to have done something like that. I am only 5'4" so I am right with you on that part. I'm glasd you all got the thing out of there though.
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | glad you liked it, its all true too!
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| | 4. GardenGerty (20332) | 6 months ago | Now that is the kind of thing I would do. I am an animal rescuer at heart, and so is hubby. I will keep the method in mind, as we have bats at our day service location right now, and everyone else will freak.
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | Glad I could help, but the other gal had the idea, I just executed it...
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | I guess I don't think of it as courage, I think of it as doing what was needed to be done. Someone had to do it, and nobody else stepped up to the plate.
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ANTIQUELADY (11354) | 6 months ago | I think u were a very brave soul for doing it.
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| | 6. Darkwing (7519) | 6 months ago | I'm like that with spiders and mice and things. I often find quite big spiders stomping around my bath and rather than kill them, I put a tumbler over them, and slide a piece of card over the top of the glass, then put them outside. With wasps, I pull all the curtains back and open the windows wide so that they can find their way out, and with mice, which I've only encountered once or twice over the years, I use a humane, see through plastic, trap. When the mouse is inside, I take the trap to the top of the garden and release them into the sheep's field.
I can't harm animals, but there are those I would rather lived their lives outside of my home as opposed to inside, so it seems I deal with them in much the same way as you do. Lovely story, my friend. Thank you for sharing and Brightest Blessings.
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | well, I honestly haven't had a problem with mice or rats - gee, I wonder why? Oh, we've found 3 dead rats and a dead mouse since we built the "playpen" but I consider that survival of the fittest, if a rodent is DUMB enough to come onto an area that smells like so many cats, they have it COMING!
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Darkwing (7519) | 6 months ago | Mine were only field mice. I never had rats, and the field mice were only here the once, attracted rather foolishly by me, to my attic. I had a box with some Easter eggs in it, which I needed to store in a reasonably cool, out of the way place, so I chose the attic... not thinking. When I next went to the attic, some of the eggs' silver paper had been gnawed through and some of the chocolate eaten, leaving large holes in the eggs. So, I rescued the "untouched" eggs and left some of the chocolate from the partially eaten ones in a humane trap. I caught two mice that way... seemingly the mother, and a baby field mouse, and released them into the field at the bottom of the garden. I learned my lesson from that, and never put anything edible in the attic again. lol. Other than that, I have no reason to believe that any rodents have come into my home.
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| | 7. jillmalitz (3934) | 6 months ago | That's a good story. A good case of necessity is the mother of invention.
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | I told you, you probably weren't listening, you know that you hear a story enough times, you stop listening.
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| | 9. barehugs (3931) | 6 months ago | When my son attended Toronto's York University, he moved onto the campus and lived in a co-ed dorm. This was about 15 years ago when the co-ed dorm was a new concept. Some time later, his Mother and I dropped in for a visit. We took the elevator up to the 4th floor, and proceeded down the hall to his room. On our way we met a student who asked us who we were visiting. We told her his name and she called to my son to inform him of a pending visit. Just as we approached the room, another girl scurried out of his room and hurried down the hall. After we had visited for a while, I asked about the washroom facilities, and my son replied. " Oh, just down the hall on your right, and don't be surprised if a girl comes out of a stall while you are there!" "Oh thats ok" I replied, "I really don't need to go that bad!"
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | Yeah, I'm such a prude I'd've probably try to hold it too.
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| | 10. tamarafireheart (12546) | 6 months ago | Hi Elic,
What a wonderful bat story though so be proud, and that was very brave of you to do that, but I am not afraid of the bat, I actually think they so sweet, the one I got off my cat was little black one with a fluff of hair on his head, it was so soft, like cotton wool, but you did well girl.
Tamara
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ElicBxn (15342) | 6 months ago | I've only ever touched one bat, and don't remember much about that, but it was someone's "pet."
Happily, I haven't seen any bats around my house.
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