Also, do this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exaY3IDvt…

You should definitely trap that bat because if you don't and you need a rabies shot, it costs over $3000 dollars without health insurance.

But what do you do once you have trapped it?

i got blown in the toilet there that day.

he did have "foam" in the corners of his mouth.

i thought it was just hyper-splooge mouth.

shit.

harborview, here I come.

Also, if you ever find a bat in an area where you sleep (so, basically anywhere in your home if your bedroom door is open) you should always get a rabies shot. A bat bite is not always noticeable, apparently.

I don't understand the current hysteria about bats. I've found and handled bats at various places in Western Washington without much concern. I know rabies is a serious disease but I suspect the risk is pretty overblown. I don't have any qualms about killing animals if it is necessary but I'd rather have the bats flying around eating mosquitoes.

This is god's way of informing the homosexuals (because AIDS wasn't as effective as It had hoped) of the abomination they are perpetuating.

I saw Madison Beach from the boat on Sunday, the place was packed elbow to elbow. It really fit with the eastern bloc style appartment buildings next door.

#7, You seem to be prone to some catastrophic thinking. All bats don't have rabies and you really have to have a bite or other close contact to contract rabies. Perhaps you would find some comfort in the Washington Dept. of Health publication Rabies Activity in Washington.
"The primary reservoir of rabies in the Northwest is bats. Rabid bats have been found in almost every county in Washington. Between 5-10% of bats submitted for testing are found to be rabid. This is a skewed population of sick and injured bats; less than 1% of healthy bats are infected with rabies."

If you want to consider the Washington State Guidelines for Human Rabies Prevention you could note the following
"Rabies exposures include bites, scratches, fresh wounds, or mucous membranes contaminated with a mammal’s saliva or neural
tissue. Touching animal fur, blood, urine, or feces is not a rabies exposure."

Yes bats are something to be concerned about and caution should be exercised but as I previously stated there is no need for hysteria.

if you or your pet gets bitten by a bat, you definitely would want to catch it if you can. the only way to test for rabies is with a brain tissue sample, and you don't want to get treatments if you don't need them - not to mention your insurance won't pay for it unless there's reason to think the bat was rabid. even working at an animal hospital, the insurance companies wouldn't cover even rabies vaccines for us because we weren't deemed to be high enough risk. you have to work in wildlife or something.

we used to get bats flying into the house through the skylight all the time when i lived out in the woods with my parents. we'd just throw a towel over them and toss them back outside. but if one had ever bitten anyone, we would have caught it and had it tested. yeah i would definitely feel bad killing it to get that tissue sample, but in that situation there's just not any other responsible choice.

of course later in life i learned that most times you don't feel the bite because their teeth are so sharp. i've even heard that if there was contact at all, you were probably bitten. (one time my mother woke up to one fluttering all around her face). so i suppose any of us could have been bitten without knowing it, and none of us got rabies.

what was my point? oh yeah, that's right - catch it if you can.