Bat trapped in our bathroom - NEED ADVICE!

[magic man]

 

[MikeDVB]

Run screaming from your house yelling "Nanananananananananananananananananana......." followed by "BATMAN!"

 

[Goober135]

Step one: Use Bat Catcher 3000

Step two: ?????????

Step three: Bat no longer in house!

 

[gunman41mag]

Now push the cardboard box to a opened window

 

[ctbreitwieser]

Bat catcher 3000. That's great. I want to go to bed so bad right now but I can't put down my phone. I just keep hitting refresh to see what becomes of this. Great thread. Thanks for keeping us up to date.

 

[gunman41mag]

I have to go to work, but I'll check on this thread from my cell phone

 

[MikeDVB]

Step one: Use Bat Catcher 3000

Step two: ?????????

Step three: Bat no longer in house!

Two questions...

1. Why are you not using the Bat Catcher 3200? The 3000 is so last year's model.
2. I see a serious flaw in your plan that may have something to do with "????????" but I don't know ... maybe that wasn't the flaw...?

 

[Goober135]

Two or three hours into this battle of epic proportions, after a minor meltdown*, involving a Three Stooges style retreat from the bathroom, the bat is safely outside and free to continue its reign of terror elsewhere!

CRISIS AVERTED!


* - While holding the Bat Catcher 3000, I slipped and fell into the bath tub, losing my grip on the pole. Luckily, we put some duck tape on the inside of the box, which the bat got tangled up in a could not escape. We then threw the box out the window, and I went outside and humanely freed the bat from the tape!

 

[Goober135]

Before Bat Catcher 3000 was deployed:

After:

A Bat Catcher 3000 is made by attaching a mono pod shooting rest to a cardboard box with duck tape. MacGyver would be proud!

 

[gunman41mag]

How in the hell, did the bat get in your house

 

[stephen87]

Wooden stake

/thread

 

[Goober135]

How in the hell, did the bat get in your house

Good question! We honestly have no idea. We've done our best to check all places they could get in, but they still manage to find a way in.

We've had 3-4 bats show up in our house over the last year...

 

[CindyE]

Epic story! I feel like crap today and this still made me chuckle. You should blog this or something.
Years ago, I had a bat in my old farmhouse. At that time, i was in my early 20s and a single mom of a toddler. We always had critters getting in that old house. I was sitting at the dining room table doing some paperwork, and i noticed a shadow keep flickering acrossed the paper, but i didn't look up for awhile, thinking it was a moth. When I did look up, I saw a bat swooping back and forth. I hollered at my daughter to run to her room and shut the door, but the bat followed her! I then told her to get under the bed covers. While I was trying to figure out how to get rid of the bat, our normally good-for-nothing cat came into the room, jumped up on the bed, and onto the lump which was my daughter under the covers. Cat jumped, caught and killed bat in mid-air. It was awesome.

 

[mcolford]

I have somehow been tagged with being on the "Bat Response Team" at work. Ive got 3 kills. One with a tennis racket, one with a folding wet floor sign, and one with a plastic barrel lid.

Those critters are so small when they fold up, but holy crap do they have a wing span.

Thanks for the morning laugh, glad you got the bat. Now celebrate with some bacon!

 

[rgrimm01]

We have had 2 in the past couple of years. After tiring one out from a drawn out chase, I used a broom to knock it off the drapes. The other one I used an aromatic festival "broom" (worked extremely well) and picked it out of the air. Both were gathered and released outside. It is very unnatural to see a bat flying around the perceived safe confines of your house and definitely creepy. For something no bigger than a mouse, when they are airborn they look like swallows working a hay field...

 

[steve666]

Smack it with a broom.

 

[Bert]

they need to check the attic area . My folks would find them every once in a while in the house . Went to the attic , holy crap was it bad . Bat crap everywhere .

 

[printcraft]

.....
While holding the Bat Catcher 3000, I slipped and fell into the bath tub, losing my grip on the pole. Luckily, we put some duck tape on the inside of the box, which the bat got tangled up in a could not escape. We then threw the box out the window, and I went outside and humanely freed the bat from the tape!

I hope you poked some holes in the bat so it could breath when inside the box.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHaCEhOiWU

 

[mainjet]

One night my wife and I were in our bedroom with our newborn baby daughter in a bassinet there with us. My wife was in bed reading and I was at the desk working on the computer. It was late and everything was very calm and quiet.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw something. I turned and looked and my wife and said "What was that"?. She said, "What was what"?. Then the bat flew by and all Hell broke loose. IT'S A BAAAAT!

She starts screaming. I jump up and grab a magazine and start swinging at the bat as it fly's wildly around our bedroom. Each time it went by I took a swing that felt like I was in slow motion. She runs out of the room and stands outside the door screaming.

She's yelling "The Baaaabbyy!" " The Baaaabby!". (Who is asleep through all of this, by the way).

Just then the bat fly's out of out room past my wife who now runs back in the bedroom and slams the door. We just stood there looking at each other.

It was an old cape cod style house that we had bought and were in the process of fixing up. I was refinishing the hardwoods floors so I had all the heat vent covers off the ducts. My wife would call me for days at work and tell me that she thinks she saw the bat again out of the corner of her eye. She was scared to move around the house because the vampire was still there, somewhere.

Months past and we never saw the bat again. Then one day I went down to the basements dungeon to change the air filter on the 50 year old furnace. I pulled up on the filter but it would not come out. I pulled several more times before it finally did come out and what did I see? It was the little vampire stuck to the filter... My wife's screaming must have scared it to death so it flew into the open duct work and later died.

I carried the filter upstairs and loudly proclaimed - "I found that bat"

Wife: WHAT! WHERE DID YOU SEE IT?
Me: It's right here on the filter (holding the filter out toward her)
Wife: (scream) JIM! GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!
me: It's dead, here look at it (I walk toward here holding out the filter toward her).
Wife (Screams, runs)
me: (chasing her with filter and vampire) here look at it.
wife: (screaming, running upstairs into the bedroom, slams door and locks it and I think I can hear furniture being slid over in front of the door)
me: Okay, I will just lay it out here by the door and you can see it when you come out.

Moral of the story - never let a crisis go to waste... Have fun with it!

seriously - as you know, when the bat is flying it is like crazy especially in a small confined space. So in a bathroom I would thing that would be freaky. but when it's not flying, like in the daytime when it's in it's casket sleeping - go in there with a towel or a fine mesh fishing net and get that thing.

Once you have it captured and secure - chase your wife around with it for a while before releasing it into your neighbors house so they can enjoy it too.

Have fun, and good luck. Muuuuuhahahaha!

 

[IN_Sheepdog]

God I love Duct Tape Stories!!! Box by itself... Fail... Box with duct tape on inside ? Epic McGyver!
I'm gonna remember that one with the next flying thing in the house and then be able to tell wife I learned about it on my INGO "gun porn" website! WINNING!!!