Strangely enough, I was once bitten by a bat-- in a library. I used to be a librarian in the USA. A bat had managed to trap itself in our library and ended up on the floor, very dehydrated. A patron decided he could help the bat by stomping on it with his big boot. I immediately dived to the floor and protected it with my hands, resulting in me being bitten. Poor little bat was so scared. I don't know why people have the urge to kill anything they don't understand.

I can call him back if you want.

Cute! One time, I was minding my own business and I noticed some commotion on the balcony - turns out a bat had taken shelter there and a seagull had decided he looked yummy and was trying to eat it. The bat tried to escape, but it was so disoriented by he light it crashed into the balcony railing and was momentarily stunned. I chased away the seagull and then protected the bat with an overturned plastic basin until nightfall. After dark, I removed the basin and the bat flew away. I didn't try to touch the bat, because my grandpa had been bitten by one in similar circumstances and had to do anti rabies shots, which are really not fun (beats getting rabies, but still, if you can avoid them altogether...).

The tubby bugger hahaha

Love bats too, we see them often where I live in Belgium!

My husband pointed out this massive moth on our curtains... uh, sweetie, that's a bat. Guess who had the task of encouraging our little visitor back outside? That would be muggins here. Have a lot sweep through our garden at dusk where we now live. Fortunately husband learned to like them. :)

Adorable

As a kid I was taught that bats are dangerous and that most bats have rabies. Some years ago when I lived in Seattle there was a bat in the governors residence for Washington State and the entire family were subjected to rabies shots even though none had been bitten. Gross exaggerations of these types have contributed to the fear of bats.

There is a little bat family that feeds at my farm in the late spring and summer. My kids and I love to watch them for a few min before it's too dark to see. But over the last 12 years they have grown to a total of 9 bars. Thanks for keeping the bugs down at this Alabama farm guys!

1) I adore bats, always have, and I am delighted to have them using my loft occasionally, I once found a lost baby bat and was advised to leave it on a ledge so mum could collect it. Unfortunately, mum failed to do so, and in the morning she was cold and wet. While I was waiting for the bat man to come and recover her (in a couple of hours) , I put her on the shoulder of my top, and put clean dry material into a box so she could warm up. However, when I went to put her in, she wasn't on my shoulder any more! she had crept across in search of warmth herseof, and found some in my ample cleavage, where she was nestling, apparently asleep! I never had the heart to remove her until our local Bat Expert (Pleasingly called Robin!) arrived. He checked her over and identified her as a Brandts or Whiskered bat (hard to tell the difference with juvenile females). As I fed her with goats milk and a sable paintbrush, he found that my neighbours have a nursery in their loft (I'm Jealous!).

Anybody else notice how they used a John Mulaney line? About 'being young and having no money, so you can imagine the stress I am under.'? Or am I just too much of a comedy nerd 🧐

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Big whoop. Bats get into buildings all the time.