February 11, 2007
Little brown bats…
Um… we had a bat in our basement on New Year’s Eve. My friend Nancy and I discovered it, quite contentedly snuggled down in the bottom of an empty trash can on the stairs. We quietly turned around and went back up the stairs and closed the door and asked Dan to take care of it. He put the little guy outside, along with the can, and let him fly away. Bear in mind that New Year’s Eve was about 50 degrees, so it wasn’t so cold as to kill him immediately, and we figured he’d just find a new place to hang out until Spring.
Fastforward 7 weeks to today. He’s back. In exactly the same spot as we found him before! Here’s a couple of pics.
Our friends Matt and Vicky, of Adventure Mining Company fame, told us to put him in a tupperware in the fridge, with holes poked in the top for ventilation, and to feed him water every week or so. But, well, no. Sorry guys. We have too many people in and out of the house poking around in the fridge, and we don’t want to have to pay the therapy bills for that!
Dan has moved him now to the unused flue of the chimney, where the old furnace used to vent. It’s way too cold outside for him, he would surely freeze to death if we put him out there or even moved him to the garage. And bats are our friends… I mean, they eat mosquitoes after all!
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