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# RACIST!
Got any bat catching tips? About 15 minutes ago a bat flew in to my sitting room and it won't go away and it's getting quite annoying, I've opened all the windows in the hope that it will fly out. I've tried catching it with a towel, but the bat is too fast.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:29, archived)
# Only bat i ever had
flew in and straight into a wall, so it was easy to get back outside..
(I helped save b3ta! Scrambled Edd www.eddsworld.co.uk, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:33, archived)
# This one is flying about all over the place
and hasn't touched a wall. It has even flown straight at me a few times and managed to avoid me. The crazy wee bugger.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:37, archived)
# Leave the windows open and switch the light out
It'll find its way out eventually, and they have such poor eyesight that household lighting will be blinding it even more.

The smell of moths and the light of the moon will help it find its way home:)

I love bats.
(I helped save b3ta! Spazzcat jam out with your clam out, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:32, archived)
# tried a baseball?
/coat
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:36, archived)
# I could try fishing for it
but I don't fancy trying to take a barbed hook out of a bat's gob. I think I'll leave it, it'll go out the window eventually. It's okay to walk about with out it slamming in to my face. They're certainly not easy to catch.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:40, archived)
# let it be
it will fuck off when it is hungry
(I helped save b3ta! Neon Blue Ah ha ha haa! I feel positively capital!, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:36, archived)
# The results on google all seem to point to baseball
So maybe chase it with a baseball bat or something.
I think most bats are attracted by the flapping of insect wings, some by blood and some by fruit. Ask him what type of bat he is.
Edit: He could also be a chip bat.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:36, archived)
# it's bloody big bat
not as big as them ones you see in them Dracula filums though.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:53, archived)
# Ain't a Pipistrelle then
Probably a Horseshoe
(I helped save b3ta! Spazzcat jam out with your clam out, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:33, archived)
# Hullo Duke!
How's things?

Try throwing a brick at it, that always works for me!
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:36, archived)
# Eveything is grand!
For about 5 minutes it was exciting having a bat in the house. I'm going to try and catching it a fishing net then lob it out the window.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:52, archived)
# Turn all your lights off....
Then go and stand outside of the window and move your arms about to attract it ......should fly straight towards you ...*possibly making this up but worth a try*....!!!.... could also try holding a mouse up in the air as well as bait..!!
(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:39, archived)
# Well, I've switched all the lights and it's still fluttering about
it's just flying around in a circle, it flys near my head and its wing has skiffed my ear. I like bats but they're bloody annoying when they get in your house.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:45, archived)
# Just thought if you stood outside the window..
It should be attracted to the heat from your body ....*not a good idea if your on the 3rd floor of anything though*..!!!
(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:48, archived)
# Good plan and thanks.
but I can't be arshed do that, I'm just going to leave it, it's a sort of an annoying novelty having a bat flapping about my head.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:57, archived)
# whatever you do
don't catch rabies

as that would make us all sad
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:40, archived)
# Rabid bats in the UK?
pfff
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:42, archived)
# Been here since we joined the EU..
Part of the agreement..!!!!
(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:44, archived)
# you never should have let romania in!
(I helped save b3ta! deodar ant trois minutes douche compris, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:09, archived)
# Aye
about two or three years ago some guy got bitten by a pipistrel bat and contracted rabies. He died.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2509375.stm
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:46, archived)
# Blimey
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:59, archived)
# I managed to catch the bugger in my fishing net
I chucked it out the window and it flew to freedom unharmed.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:08, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Spazzcat jam out with your clam out, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:37, archived)
# bats I think are probably about the best way to get rabies in this country
so, do be careful around the little squeaking buggers
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:58, archived)
# I'm well aware of that
after that guy being bitten by one.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 1:09, archived)
# Burn it out.
(I helped save b3ta! Yeknom. Incontinence and Premature ejaculation? Easy come, easy go., Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:47, archived)
# throw up a tennis ball
he'll follow it back to the ground and then you can catch him with a trash can or something.

I do it for fun in the summer (witchout the actually catching part). I think it's probably a mating thing as I don't know why else bats would follow something that big to the ground but they do (the ones in America anyway).
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Wed 4 Jul 2007, 0:58, archived)