Not exactly horror

[yourlastmistake]

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The kids have been bugging me to get out the Halloween stuff. I've been complaining its too early. So... I give in, go up in the attic to get all the stuff out. Look what I find. Two bats. I havent seem them in a couple of years. Since we've lived here 2 or 3 will visit a couple of times a year. They will usually stay for a month then move on. Ahhhh..... I love Fall. Halloween, cooler temps and bats.

[nine9]

I love bats. I even had one once.............we found him on a fence. He was really cute but I let him go because I had cats and was worried that he might have been carrying a disease. They really are cute........but..........don't think they should be flying free in your attic lol!

[Rebel Yell]

Bats are seriously the most amazing creatures ever. I love them. My aunt has bats like mad at her house. They cling to her outside wall and sleep. It is so cute.

[Vampenguin]

Aside from penguins....




















Bats rule the world!!!!

[orangestar]

aww I've never seen one in real life.

[fluffho]

TIGHT! watch out though, they can carry rabies. hell its not even so much the bats u hafto worry about, but all the GUANO

anyway its probably best u not have them there, but i dunnow hat sort of set up ur place is. that and it sounds like ur used to em. if u have a problem, call a wildlife sanctuary (odds are there is one, and if its far they will go out of their way to help u). notice, i said sanctuary, NOT animal control. control generally deals with domestics, that and are more apt to killing :(


<~works at wildlife sanctuary

[Hate_Breeder]

Theres a shitbunch of bats in the Oregon Caves. They would zoom right by your head. Also theres some up river. They come out at night to eat all the bugs that fly around. Very cool sight though..

[bloodrayne]

I've caught several bats in this house, but I always open the window and let them go...I kept only one, a while back, but one of the neighbor kids opened the cage and let him go...Anyway, they are all over the place here...:cool:

[yourlastmistake]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nine9
don't think they should be flying free in your attic lol!

They're not. They hang on the outside of the screen. I guess the wooden slats are enough to protect them from the daylight.

[yourlastmistake]

Cause you know how they are. They might burst into flames in direct sunlight.

[nine9]

Originally posted by yourlastmistake
Cause you know how they are. They might burst into flames in direct sunlight.

LOL! :D

[yourlastmistake]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
I've caught several bats in this house, but I always open the window and let them go...I kept only one, a while back, but one of the neighbor kids opened the cage and let him go...Anyway, they are all over the place here...:cool:

I'm used to them. When we were kids we caught two with a bucket. Right under a street light. Two of them collided in the air. They fell to the street attached to each other. A friend covered them with a bucket.(We had been catching crawdads earlier) All you could hear was squeaking. After a minute or two the bucket started to jump around. You could hear them flapping around. We realized we had to let them go. I ran over to the bucket and flipped it over and ran as fast as I could. I turned around and they flew off in opposite directions. They must have been mating. One of the strangest things I've ever seen.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by yourlastmistake
I'm used to them. When we were kids we caught two with a bucket. Right under a street light. Two of them collided in the air. They fell to the street attached to each other. A friend covered them with a bucket.(We had been catching crawdads earlier) All you could hear was squeaking. After a minute or two the bucket started to jump around. You could hear them flapping around. We realized we had to let them go. I ran over to the bucket and flipped it over and ran as fast as I could. I turned around and they flew off in opposite directions. They must have been mating. One of the strangest things I've ever seen. Coitus Interruptus...Shame on you...How would you like it if a bat flew into your bedroom with a bucket while you were....Nevermind, it must not have been very good anyway if they flew off in different directions, afterwards ;)

I caught a bat in a 5 gallon bucket (put a screen over the top, he hung from the screen) that prior to that capture, had contained 42 snakes that we had hunted up from the creek...Strange parallel, huh?

[bloodrayne]

BTW...If you pitch coins up in the air under a streetlight, they'll dive after them...

[Hate_Breeder]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
BTW...If you pitch coins up in the air under a streetlight, they'll dive after them...

They also do that with mini marshmellows and pebbles..

[Sam The Egg]

bats are bugs

[yourlastmistake]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bloodrayne
that prior to that capture, had contained 42 snakes that we had hunted up from the creek...Strange parallel, huh?

What does one do with 42 snakes?

[Malicious_Mirth]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
bats are bugs

HAHA


bats arent bugs.......lol


they are mammals HA! bugs thats funny shit tho
:D :D

[yourlastmistake]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sam The Egg
[B]bats are bugs


One of the great things about bats is their large appetite for insects. God knows we have plenty of those, in the South. Especially Mosquitoes.

[yourlastmistake]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bloodrayne
[B]BTW...If you pitch coins up in the air under a streetlight, they'll dive after them...

They will chase anything you throw at them as long as it's not too large. Thats one of the things I had to show my son after the bats showed up. He got a real kick out of it. They truely are masters of flight. They are quite impressive, the way they can change direction in flight.

[Malicious_Mirth]

where in the south do you live??

[yourlastmistake]

Georgia

[Malicious_Mirth]

nice


and i agre we got bugs down south that will get your kids LOL


i am in Mississippi

[yourlastmistake]

Hope to be moving to North Carolina within the next year .

[yourlastmistake]

Got a couple of co-workers from Mississippi. Pretty cool guys.

[Malicious_Mirth]

its a pretty decent place i guess albeit very boring HAHA!!

[DaBroMain]

very fucking boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yourlastmistake]

There seems to be a lack of jobs in Jackson, Mississippi.
No lack here. There are plenty of people moving to the Atlanta metro area. We were third in the nation for job/population growth last year.

[yourlastmistake]

Wayyyy too many people are moving here. Thats why I'm heading to the mountains of southern North Carolina. Eric Robert Rudolph country.:D

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by yourlastmistake
[QUOTE]Originally posted by bloodrayne
that prior to that capture, had contained 42 snakes that we had hunted up from the creek...Strange parallel, huh?

What does one do with 42 snakes? Well...You take out the biggest, coolest ones (6 Water Moccasins, that time), and you put them in an aquarium that is half full of creekmud and rocks, with about 8 inches of water on one side...You feed the ones in the aquarium goldfish from the bait shop...The other ones you leave on your 'petrified of snakes' mother's front porch, then wait till her curiosity gets ahold of her...You'll know, when you hear the screams and the thud ;) :)